Overview

• The Ministry of Housing formally proposed on July 16 a five-year, €6.6 billion public housing program conditioned on autonomous communities contributing 40 percent of the budget, more than tripling regional investment from the 2022–2025 plan.
• Minister Isabel Rodríguez urged immediate formalization of the state-regional agreement with priorities to triple investment, shield protected housing stock and guarantee data transparency across all participating territories.
• In their July 17 response, PP-governed regions led by Madrid criticized the financing mandate as insufficiently consensual and demanded co-governance under their own six-line strategic framework.
• The PP alternative stresses private property rights and rental legal security while proposing to mobilize public land for social housing, incentivize developers and cooperatives, promote rentals at up to 30 percent below market, and expand rehabilitation support.
• The Basque Country and Navarre remain outside the state plan’s remit as intergovernmental negotiations and PP regions’ appeals to the Constitutional Court over housing competencies continue.