The President of the Government of Spain celebrates the unblocking of Operation Campamento, which will mark "a before and after" in public housing policy

Castillejos Barracks, Madrid

After signing the collaboration protocol between the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda for the transfer of military land for the construction of 12,000 homes, of which at least 60% will be subsidised, he said the following.

"The difficulty in accessing decent housing is not a simple market problem, a simple problem of mismatch between supply and demand. And this, above all, is because it affects a social right that is recognised and enshrined in the Spanish Constitution", Pedro Sánchez stressed, at an event attended by the Minister for Defence, Margarita Robles; the Minister for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, and the Minister for the Presidency, Relations with Parliament and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños.

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, during his speech at the signing of the collaboration protocol for the transfer military land in Campamento (Madrid) | Pool Moncloa/Fernando Calvo

The affordable rental housing to be built in Campamento is part of the Affordable Rental Housing Plan, within the framework of the State Housing Plan 2022- 2025. The aim is to make 100,000 social and affordable rental homes available, in what will be "the biggest effort ever made in our country in terms of social housing".

This figure includes the housing promoted by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda through SEPES (the public land agency also responsible for developing Operation Campamento), those included in the protocol signed by Transportes with Sareb and the forecast of 20,000 homes to be built with the €1 billion included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

Public-Private Collaboration

The Chief Executive stressed the importance of public-private collaboration, as shown by the agreement signed by the Government with banks for the establishment of social and affordable rents, which already has 10,000 homes and which has been extended for another year with the incorporation of another thousand properties.

"We are going to work tirelessly to make this decade different, a different era in which talking about housing in Spain does not mean a problem, does not mean a luxury that cannot be afforded by the majority of citizens, especially young people", he stressed. The President of the Government of Spain has set housing as a priority issue with initiatives such as the aforementioned plans, the Law on the Quality of Architecture and the forthcoming Housing Law, "which will enshrine its status as a social right".

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