HOUSE BILL: Antineutrino-Simossad Affordable Housing Act of 2017 (Passed VP/PPT)

[Representative simossad]

Thank your, Mr. Speaker, for introducing this bill to the floor. It will hopefully draw more attention than the previous one.

This bill has is roots in the failed "The Rent is Too Damn High Act," which was shut down by the members of this house without a real debate. Right after the failure of the bill was announced, the honorable Representative Pessimistic Antineutrino and I got into contact and exchanged our ideas on this very important issue. Our goal was to create a bill on affordable housing which is influenced by the very rare criticism on the last bill and which incourages the real estate owners to invest in and to offer affordable housing for everyone. This is a real bipartisan effort by Pessimistic Antineutrino of the Federalist Party and by myself of the Labor Party and I truly believe that we have created a stable and solid foundation that is acceptable for the vast majority of representatives and that we can built and work on, if necessary.

We have addressed the criticism by the president and established a compromise on the issue of rent control measurements by giving more power to the regions, by making it more flexible and individually adjustable for the regions' executives and by making the introduction of such a rent control measurement completely optional. We are giving an extra competence to the regions, and it is a fairly sensible shift of competence which we added there, knowing that the situation within the regions can best be evaluated by the regions themselves.

Section four aims to create tax incentives for real estate owners to invest in empty apartments and houses and rent them for a relatively low amount of money or resell them for a relatively low amount of money. We hope that these tax incentives encourage these people to do so and that this measurement will lead to a revivement of empty and abandoned homes.
We also created a housing pool for empty and abandoned homes which gives the opportunity for families and people who struggle to find an affordable place to live to get an apartement or a house for a relatively low amount of money. Both the condominium and the tenants have tax incentives to use this opportunity.

Honorable members, dear collegues, this bill is, and I know that I repeat myself, the result of a bipartisan effort to address this very important issue. It would be a great thing if we find an agreement and accept this compromise that would definitely help Atlasian citizens.

[Representative simossad]

I lean towards supporting this as well. However, I will note that the text could use some improvements, or is "programme" spelled that intentionally?

Of yourse not, just a minor error which is caused by the difficulty to seperate the British and the American spelling for someone who speaks English as a second language
Do we have to vote on an amendment or can we leave it like this, regarding to the fact that the content of the bill does not change?