The Spanish Council of Ministers has authorised a new transfer of €260 million to Casa 47, the State Housing Agency, to boost the construction of 1,629 affordable homes. The operation, approved at the proposal of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, represents the fourth contribution to this public body and brings the total funds transferred to promote affordable housing to €2.08 billion.
The funds will enable 22 new residential projects to be launched. With this addition, Casa 47 will have 68 active projects across the country, comprising 44 residential building schemes, totalling 3,266 homes, and 24 land development schemes with the potential capacity for 22,000 homes.
“The public policies and investment drive being spearheaded by the Government are yielding results: in the first quarter of 2026, we achieved the highest figure for public housing tenders since 2008”, stated Isabel Rodríguez, the Minister for Housing and Urban Development. During that period, public housing tenders totalled €465 million, 44.12% more than in the same quarter of the previous year and the highest volume in the current historical series.
Isabel Rodríguez also linked this new transfer to the objective of expanding the public housing stock. As she explained, the contribution to Casa 47 is in addition to other measures already underway, including the incorporation of 40,000 homes from Sareb and an initial purchase offer of over €100 million to acquire homes owned by private individuals or funds and allocate them to affordable rental housing.
The Council of Ministers has also agreed on the maximum amounts for the 2026–2030 State Housing Plan and the proposed regional distribution unanimously agreed at the Sectoral Conference on Housing and the Urban Agenda on 21 May 2026.
The plan will have a total budget of €7 billion and will be structured around a model of shared financial responsibility: the central government will contribute 60% of the funds and the autonomous communities the remaining 40%. The central government’s contribution will amount to €4.2 billion, to be transferred over the plan’s five-year period, with €800 million this year and €850 million in each of the remaining years.
The planned distribution allocates at least 40% of the funds to the construction and purchase of homes, 30% to the refurbishment of the existing housing stock, and a further 30% to measures targeting groups and regions with the greatest needs. The plan also includes mechanisms to ensure the permanent protection of housing financed with its resources, an anti-fraud clause for the allocation of social housing, measures to promote territorial cohesion, and a public housing data system.
