Pedro Sánchez highlights the right to decent and affordable housing as one of the main axes of his government's action

Barcelona

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister for Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, visit an affordable public housing development in Barcelona (Borja Puig)

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, travelled to Barcelona on Monday, where he visited a public housing development in the La Marina del Prat Vermell neighbourhood, in the Sants-Montjuïc district. The chief executive, accompanied by the Minister for Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, and the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, toured this development of 72 affordable public housing units and visited one of them.

Located in a building with almost zero energy consumption, the development visited by the president received a €1.7 million subsidy from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda as part of the €20 million granted to Barcelona City Council for 18 housing developments, mostly for affordable rentals, managed by the Barcelona Municipal Institute for Housing and Rehabilitation (Instituto Municipal de Vivienda y Rehabilitación de Barcelona). In total, the government has invested €62.3 million in affordable housing in Barcelona.

The executive has made the right to decent and affordable housing one of the main axes of government action, and has launched an ambitious housing policy, increasing the budget eightfold: from €470 billion to €3.5 billion.

Among the government's main housing measures, the following stand out: the first Housing Law of democracy, the Affordable Rental Housing Plan, the ICO guarantees for young people, the more than €5.52 billion from the Recovery Plan for housing and the urban agenda, the launching of the reference rental price index for stressed areas, the elimination of the so-called Golden Visa, the State Housing Plan, which will come into force in 2026, and the Bono Joven Alquiler.

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