The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday the royal decree regulating the new State Housing Plan 2026-2030, a plan that mobilizes 7,000 million euros, triple the previous one, to promote a public housing stock that is permanently protected and cannot be privatized.
According to the Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, this is an important step to provide a solution to the housing problem for today and forever, and she emphasizes that “patches are not enough,” nor is there a “magic wand,” and that citizens are demanding a national agreement on housing.
Rodríguez added that the plan is the result of dialogue and collaboration, with more than 28 meetings held, 400 contributions received from the sector, and, furthermore, it is the first time it has been studied by the Council of State. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was the one who launched the project at the Conference of Presidents in Barcelona.
This plan states that 60% of the investment will come from the Government of Spain and 40% will be contributed by the autonomous communities, which will see their funds tripled for the development of public policies that guarantee the affordability and permanent protection of housing.
For the funds to reach companies and individuals, the Government must sign the respective agreements with the autonomous communities. The territorial distribution of aid is subject to a commitment to execution by the territories. That is, the different regional governments must accept the conditions to receive the corresponding housing financing. The minister of the sector, Isabel Rodríguez, has assured that she hopes all territories will join the plan, although she has not ruled out that some community governed by the PP may not do so.
Regarding the territorial distribution of up to 7,000 million in housing subsidies, the autonomous communities currently governed by the PP almost quadruple the funds they received during the validity period of the previous plan. They will be able to access aid for up to 5,100 million until 2030, while until now they have received 1,355 million in total.
Thus, Andalusia will be able to access an additional 877 million during the validity period of the State Housing Plan approved today, compared to the previous plan, counting on state resources and those contributed by the autonomous community itself. Madrid improves its financing by 815 million and the Valencian Community by 558 million. Catalonia, for its part, does so by 473 million because it was the only territory that already contributed more than 40% of its own resources in the previous call for the State Housing Plan.
The Minister of Housing has also stated that she hopes the plan “will be deployed with the loyalty that such a necessary response deserves to solve the housing problem on the part of the autonomous communities.”
The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for his part, on Tuesday dismissed the new state housing plan approved by the Council of Ministers as “propaganda” and accused Pedro Sánchez’s Executive of having turned access to a home into “a luxury” after almost eight years in power.
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