With the beginning of the legislative agenda, the Chamber of Deputies will begin today the debate to reform the rental law which is in force in the country since July 2020.
Legislators will seek to modify the project the term of validity of the contracts between tenants and owners as well as the updating system of the same that is currently in the rental law.
The discussion about rental law It will start at 3:00 p.m. in the General Legislation Commission. The debate will be held for a period of 30 working days.as stipulated in the agreement between the ruling party and the opposition.
This after last week the president of the Lower House, Sergio Massa, and the heads of the blocks of the UCR, Mario Negri, and the PRO, Cristian Ritondo, which make up the interblock Together for Change, established it.
The commission that will discuss the project will be made up of 31 members, of which 16 correspond to the Front of All, 14 to Together for Change and one to the Federal interbloc.
To prevent the creation of a tax on idle housing from being included, it was also established that the discussion only take place in the General Legislation Commission, as requested by Together for Change.
Why do you want to change the rental law?
In view of the normative in force did not meet the expected results, mainly in relation to the control of increases in rental rates in contracts, they seek to modify the law.
With the reform to the project, the increase in rents would be controlled, which today outlines the price update mechanism; in addition to reducing the contract time from 3 to 2 years.
The proposal also proposes granting tax benefits for property owners, in order to increase the rental offer in the country, which has been significantly reduced.