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Pepa Font: "We want to help young people to leave their parents' house and start their life project"

May 21 from 2023 - 09: 00

Pepa Font, a veteran in Dianense politics, has returned to the front line to contest the mayoralty of the city after giving herself a four-year break. He considers that Dénia has been unemployed for this time, so he has had to put on the work overalls again, this time blue Party.

The popular candidate receives us in a busy headquarters, due to the usual rhythms of the campaign, to tell us about her project focused on young people. For Font, they are a fundamental pillar and she wants this renewal of the aging society to be well cared for. Several points of the program that deal with cross-cutting issues such as sport, housing or birth are reserved for them.

ASK. Dénia currently suffers from a housing problem. In fact, it is almost impossible for someone young to become independent today and start their life project in this city. If you won the Mayor's Office the next 28M, how would you go about solving this problem?

ANSWER. Several aspects must be attacked. One of the important aspects is to generate new homes for young people. In the last 8 years not a single social housing has been built. Not even one.

The problem with generating new homes, which I think is one of the solutions, is that it has a very high temporality. We are talking about the fact that you have to have the land, you have to acquire it, you have to find someone to promote it... We are talking about a temporary period of four or five years.

For this reason, at the same time that an effort is made to obtain this land and to generate new, more accessible housing for our young population, what we from the Popular Party propose is to favor, on the one hand, renting. Dénia is a holiday city, mainly, and throughout the coast we suffer pressure from rental prices. At this moment we understand that the easiest, simplest and most attackable thing is to help in this sense: if one has to pay 600 euros and you pay 150, a young couple with a job that they can access can keep a rent.

That is the first, but then we have another measure that was highly questioned at the time by the current Dénia government team. Using ICO funds, we want to help subsidize those under 35 years of age that 20% down payment that all banks require to access new mortgages.

P. Under 35.

R. Yes, we understand that it is a standard and appropriate age for you to help people emancipate from their home. And you help them so that, if they want to buy a home, they can buy it.

As I said, what we want is, through the ICO funds, to guarantee this 20%. The bank offers you a loan of 80% and with the rest you will manage. In short, the young person is going to pay for everything, but we want to help that "you'll get by" find a solution, and so that they don't have to draw on their own or family savings, having the ability to access housing without having to a high outlay at the time you buy it.

Q. Would it be a loan?

R. It is a loan made by the bank, which is endorsed by the City Council to help young people that bank would not give them this 20% advance otherwise. In the end, the City Council has to have entities that are willing to collaborate. Since this is going to immobilize an amount of money, we are going to charge it to ICO funds, so that it does not touch the municipal budget.

In short, it is to lengthen the repayment time of that loan. Broadly speaking, and in the absence of fully developing all the action, that is the way to act. It does not compromise the municipal budget and helps the young person who already knows previously, from the bank, that he is going to have a mortgage.

We have not invented it. It is already done in other communities in Spain governed by the PP. Moreover, the president of Spain himself has copied the measure: he also proposes the endorsement. He has proposed thousands of youth homes, but they realize that it takes time to execute and the youth can't wait in the meantime.

Q. In addition to the guarantee, you have mentioned aid that you contemplate for the rental of housing.

R. Of course, not everyone will have access to buy a new home. There will be people who, due to purchasing power or because they are here circumstantially, or because they are single people who want to become emancipated, do not think about buying a home. And the easiest thing is to rent a flat. Well, we have this proposal of 150 euros to help them lower the rental price. In this way, we make it possible for young people to leave home and develop their own life project in a reasonable amount of time, and not have to wait until they are 30, 35, 40 years old to be able to leave home.

Q. But there is already aid from the Government and the Generalitat. Would they be complementary?

R. In principle, at the municipal level, they will not be exclusive of other aid. The profile of the person who requests it from us, who meets the requirements that must be set, commitment, solvency, people who have a job... Who has the ability to afford rent, that person will have that help.

Q. So, are the requirements the ones you just mentioned?

R. They will be those and surely complementary. The help is not fully developed. We will do the punctuation. It is not about “everyone”.

I met, for example, a person with work yesterday who told me "Pepa, I charge 850 euros and I can't leave." A lady over 40 who has separated, who is now alone. And there are rentals for 500 euros, rentals that you give them 150 euros and they can cope with. But of course, with 850 euros and without help he cannot. So, these aids must be given.

Q. Speaking of young people, you also talk in your program about helping those students who have to go to the university every week.

R. Yes. Dénia does not have a university education. We have to move to Alicante and Valencia, mainly. We want to give travel scholarships of 500 euros per year to help make this travel free.

If we had the train from Dénia to Valencia that made it possible to go and return the same day, without spending the rent, it would not be necessary.

Q. Sure. If there was a train, maybe it wouldn't be necessary.

R. A train that in an hour and a half you could be in Valencia you could consider, because renting in Valencia is very expensive. With that money you have plenty to go and come back, apart from the fact that there are free bonuses right now for young people. Therefore, it would allow the studies to be considered in another way.

But, at the moment, to go to study in Valencia there is no other option than to stay. This generates a series of weekly trips that could use this help for families in the form of scholarships.

Q. Speaking of scholarships, during the campaign you mentioned some sports scholarships.

R. That is part of the ambitious plan we have for sports. They are aimed at athletes who point out elite ways, to help them so that they can work and see their abilities.

We want to help these people who have a sports projection, while they find out if they have that ability to reach it or not, on the journey to prove themselves.

Q. Can you specify a bit what the scholarship consists of?

R. It will depend on the type of sport we are talking about, what needs it has and to make a bag of help from the City Council. Scholarships cannot be uniform. It doesn't take the same thing to help someone who travels to Valencia three days a week to train with the soccer team, as it does for a girl who has to go to a high-performance center in Barcelona.

Each proposal must be personified and studied separately, because many times families cannot take care of this and the wings of a possible Olympic medalist are clipped, so we want to help them.

Q. That is to say, that the idea is not to forget the young people and help them.

Of course. Young people are one of the fundamental pillars of our society. And there would be another measure that we have not mentioned and that would also help young people: the €500 baby check. That is also for young families.

We want to help everyone so that our society can regenerate itself in ages. In 15 years Dénia has reduced its birth rate by 50%. There were 520 births, and in 2022 there were 267. With this check we can solve everything? No, but we will help families with children with the first expenses.

The population is getting older. We live more. We work so that the quality of life of those who live longer is better, and so that the renewal of society is well taken care of, young people have opportunities and those who have a proposal that contributes to Dianense society, have support from the City hall.

Comments
  1. María Ivars says:

    Amen.

  2. Manuel Femenia says:

    I think the first thing they have to do is get the liberal plague out of town hall.
    Second is to recover the management that the PP did during the years that it governed and that led Denia to be a city where it was a pleasure to live.
    Now it is a funny caricature and palette of what it was not so long ago.
    oh!!!!! And return road traffic to Marques de Campo so that the shops recover from the ruin they have... only on summer weekends should it be closed.

  3. Luis says:

    What they have to do are workshops on: How to rent your parents' house on AIRBNB and send them to subsist under a bridge.
    Much more useful.

  4. Cesar Pino Dominguez says:

    Hello .
    We are on sale. The entire political world promises, but if they manage to govern they do not feel obliged to comply. THEY ARE ALREADY THE ELITE!
    I do not doubt the good intentions of Dª Josefa Font. . But everything is going to do; we want to bring, the beaches will be beaches again, the floods will be controlled... etc.
    The first thing is to start creating economic resources, which do not mean turning taxpayers upside down.
    Demand funds from the central government, preventing it from continuing to squander the budget between mostly capricious falcon trips, for friends and middling ministers. continuing to eliminate more than a dozen ministers, ministries, secretaries, bad advisers and advisers, who do not seem to exist, parallel businesses, beach bars, celebrations for lack of culture, inequality and scratches with bad taste and rudeness, etc. etc. and more etc. .
    It is time that you PP. Get strong, associate with the constitutionalist forces, forget about reaching out to the socialists, communists, etc. Don't be arrogant and feel Spanish for being on top of everything.
    Commit to abolishing all the crap that Sanchez has allowed himself with the misuse and abuse of the BOE.
    Be brave and extend personal guarantees that guarantee your management. lowering the emoluments of all politicians by a minimum of 30%, no more bonuses or more pre-sales.
    Excuse me. This is not valid only for Denia and I repeat the PP in Denia seems to enjoy sufficient respect from the Dianenses According to, one can deduce from comments on the street.

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  6. Luis says:

    Yes now….and we believe it….


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