PP responds to socialist opposition criticism over social housing

In response to the PSPV-PSOE Xàbia statement issued to express surprise at the mayor’s apparent handing over of social housing to a resident who asked for it instead of using it to alleviate the house problem in the town, the Partido Popular (PP) has issued their own statement in which it claims that the current local government team was “making up for the time lost by the previous local government“, accusing the socialists of having had a housing policy which consisted of “doing nothing“.

The statement in full:

“A blind administration is a bad administration. That’s how we understand it. An administration that is not empathetic, that does not understand the problems of its neighbours is a bad administration. An administration that leaves a family homeless is also a bad administration.“

“In Xàbia (and in the whole of Marina Alta), we have a serious housing problem. We urgently need social and affordable housing. We know this. We are working to alleviate it with the Plan Vive together with the Generalitat Valenciana in the bidding process and also opening the way for AMJASA. We are making up for the time lost by the previous local government. The data is objective. How many public housing units did they build? Zero. Their housing policy consisted of doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. We explained it clearly in the plenary session. But Chulvi and his councillors do not even want to listen“.

“The council’s right of first refusal to acquire a house from Sareb expired because, otherwise, we would have left a family homeless, a family that already had a contract, a paid reservation for the house and a mortgage granted, a family in foster care, a family that needed help. We will have more opportunities to exercise our right of first refusal and to buy flats. But what we are not going to do is leave a family on the street. That is empathy. That is understanding the problems of our residents. The socialist spokesman José Chulvi reproaches us that ‘the administration does not work like that’. I think that if he applied this phrase to his years as mayor, the ‘like that’ would have to be removed. ‘The administration does not work, it did not work’. A blind, Kafkaesque and unscrupulous administration is a bad administration“.