Casa 47 will put out to public tender this quarter the development of two,800 reasonably priced properties | Housing | Economy | EUROtoday

The Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, has introduced that Casa 47, the general public entity that promotes reasonably priced housing for hire, will put out to tender this quarter the development of two,800 new properties. A recreation that’s added to the 1,600 which have already been put out to public tender in 2025, which provides a complete projection of 4,400 new properties, which will likely be used for hire and will likely be managed all through the method by the general public firm. However, taking into consideration the same old building deadlines in Spain, and that the public sale is just the primary section of the undertaking, the decision of the works may take as much as 4 years. The announcement represents solely step one.

Rodríguez participated this Friday in Congress in a unprecedented session of the Housing Commission at her personal request to report on the motion of her division and the actions of the state entity Casa 47. The minister has defended the financial energy of the brand new entity and the tasks it has been finishing up since its basis. “Casa 47 is going to put out to tender the construction of 2,800 new homes in public-private collaboration. This is a company that was born with financial solvency, already ready with more than 13,000 million euros for the coming years, and that undoubtedly has very ambitious, transformative projects such as the new Campamento neighborhood,” he famous, in reference to the undertaking that will likely be carried out within the southwest of Madrid, the place the development of 10,700 properties has been proposed. “At the end of the year, the demolition works began and we have the financing prepared and we are ready to start the urbanization works,” he defined in relation to this work.

The minister has additionally defined that this new tender will embrace remaining city land, public assist, financing and leases in order that they’re lined inside the affordability situations outlined by the Executive. The rental contracts signed by Casa 47 could have a period of as much as 75 years and the value will likely be set in line with affordability standards: it should have a cap per autonomous group, in order that no hire can exceed 30% of the median earnings of the territory. The first name for 171 reasonably priced and ready-to-move-in residences was launched in December, with 67 homes in Valencia, 37 in Mieres and 67 in Vigo.

This announcement by the particular person chargeable for Housing is the primary of a collection of tenders that will likely be launched each quarter, and which will likely be revealed on the portal particularly enabled for this objective.

Rodríguez, who has indicated that 100 million will likely be allotted to purchase non-public belongings and switch them into public and reasonably priced belongings, has taken pleasure within the quantity of building lately. “We started from nothing,” he defended. The minister celebrated that between 2024 and 2025 the speed of begin and completion of protected housing works has doubled in comparison with 2018. “In these years we have classified 102,511 homes as protected, compared to 53,754 during the three terms of Mariano Rajoy,” she recalled.

Regarding the present rental scenario, and whether or not the measures applied by his ministry are serving to include the rise in costs, Rodríguez has expressed that the declaration of pressured market areas “is working”, and has alluded to the information recognized this Thursday about Navarra, the place rents within the municipalities with this declaration have been decreased by 8.6% within the six months that the rule has been in power.

Regarding the autumn of the omnibus decree through which the extension of the anti-eviction moratorium was integrated, Rodríguez has regretted the rejection of Congress. “I regret that those who have voted no to this regulation do so with arguments that do not correspond to the truth,” he complained. “Vote what you want, but do not argue with fallacies, with demagoguery and putting fear in people. This shield is to protect and here all public administrations have to be in protection,” Rodríguez asserted, recalling that “any person can fall into this situation.”

Lack of knowledge

However, this studying of the scenario has not satisfied the remainder of the events. Marta Madrenas, consultant of Junts, has requested the minister for extra data and information on the conduct of leases in Catalonia (which concentrates greater than 90% of the areas declared pressured). “Because according to what I see from the official data of the Catalan authorities, the supply is decreasing and if we do not share the information among all of us, we will not be able to make a correct diagnosis about the success of the measures,” he famous. In this regard, the minister has acknowledged the necessity to “have more public data” and has dedicated to “working in that direction” and “in the development of the necessary regulations to address this problem.”

Alberto Ibáñez, deputy of Sumar, has criticized the 100% private earnings tax bonus on rental earnings for homeowners proposed by the Government, mentioning that “it would not work in nine out of ten contracts” as a result of the market worth “rises more than the bonus.” Although this measure was introduced by Pedro Sánchez on January 12, and the president introduced that it could be authorized “in the coming weeks”, it has nonetheless not taken form.