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The government has ratified the allocation of €200 million for the Youth Rental Voucher, aimed at facilitating access to housing or a room through rental or use transfer agreements.
This aid is set at €250 per month, for a period of 2 years, for those under 35 years old.
Isabel Rodríguez: “The Government of Spain has the absolute commitment to allocate all the resources of the State to guarantee access to decent and affordable housing for all Spaniards”
The Conference has unanimously agreed to the distribution of 200 million euros corresponding to the Youth Rental Bonus. It is the fourth time in less than a year that this commission meets. “A country alliance is necessary that responds to the problem that thousands of Spaniards have in our country to access housing,” said the minister before the meeting. Through the Recovery Plan, agreements have been reached to build more than 24,000 homes and the rehabilitation of more than 600,000.
The Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, presided this morning over the Sectoral Conference of Housing and Urban Agenda that has dealt with the new call for the Youth Rental Bonus, continued the work of the next State Housing Plan and the monitoring of the investments of Component 2 of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
The minister has explained to the media that this institutional meeting between the Government of Spain and the autonomous communities that housing is “a State policy, as the Government understands it,” she said in reference to the call of the Ministry of Territorial Policy for the preparatory meeting of the Conference of Presidents. Isabel Rodríguez defends that the President of the Government “has launched the clear and sharp message to the whole of Spanish society so that we reach that great State pact, that Country Alliance around housing so that we all commit to giving that necessary answer to the problem that thousands of Spaniards have in our country to access housing.”
On the other hand, already within the items on the agenda, the minister has addressed first the management of the Recovery Plan. A management that he has described as “susces” because it is “allowing the development, the rehabilitation of neighbourhoods, the rehabilitation of housing, the construction of new affordable rental housing and even improving the rehabilitation of different public buildings of the autonomous communities and municipalities.”
In this sense, Isabel Rodríguez highlighted the main milestones reached with this Recovery Plan through more than 800 agreements signed with autonomous communities and municipalities. With them, 24,463 homes from the affordable rental housing construction program will be built, 306 neighbourhoods are already being rehabilitated, which is equivalent to more than 47,000 homes, and the environment of 600,000 homes in rehabilitation is being executed and processed through the calls for the programs for the rehabilitation of homes and buildings managed by the Autonomous Communities.
On the other hand, regarding the Youth Rental Bonus, the minister recalled that it is a measure promoted by the Government of Spain in the “desire to overcome the difficulties of young people, giving an answer to the rental problems that exist today in Spain.” Isabel Rodríguez has regretted that there are demands from young people related to the “lack of agility, transparency, loss of time and, in some cases, a very slow management of calls” by the autonomous communities. The minister has explained that the Executive launches a new call reaffirming the “Government’s commitment to Spanish youth, who are in the worst conditions at the moment to access housing.”
Finally, the minister made a new appeal to the Country Alliance for housing, where all administrations “commit ourselves to giving that necessary answer to the problem that thousands of Spaniards have in our country to access housing.” Isabel Rodríguez said that “a country alliance is necessary that responds to the problem that thousands of Spaniards have in our country to access housing.”
“A country alliance that the Spaniards deserve, that the Spaniards deserve, that of course we will work from the Government and that we hope to have the complicity of all of us who have to make it possible. That is what we are investing in all our efforts in, because we believe that the cause is worth it,” said the minister before the meeting with the regional councillors.
Youth Rental Bonus
The Sectoral Conference has ratified by the unanimity of the autonomous communities of common regime, which are the beneficiary administrations, the distribution of the 200 million euros of the Youth Rental Bonus, agreed at the Sectoral Conference of February 2, 2022.
This aid is set at 250 euros per month, for a period of 2 years for each young person, in order to facilitate their emancipation or in any case access to enjoy a house or room on a rental or transfer basis.
In this way, Andalusia receives 34.2 M€; Aragon, 7.6 M€; Asturias, 6.6 M€; Balearic Islands, 4.8 M€; Canary Islands, 10.6 M€; Cantabria, 3.8 M€; Castilla y León, 10.8 M€; Castilla-La Mancha, 8 M€; Catalonia, 29 M€; Extremadura, 6 M€; Galicia, 11.4 M€; La Rioja, 3.4 M€; Madrid, 31.8 M€; Murcia, 8.8 M€; C. Valencian, 22.8 M€; Ceuta, 200,000 €; and, Melilla, 200,000 €.
The next step is for the Council of Ministers to give the go-ahead to this Agreement and, subsequently, the Sectoral Conference will meet again to ratify it. Once the administrative procedures have been ratified and fulfilled, the Executive will precede the submission of the resolutions with the respective amounts to the autonomous communities so that they accept and can make the transfer for their respective notifications.
