The Government, through the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU), has approved the distribution of 5,572,800 euros to Cantabria for the rehabilitation of housing, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).
At its meeting today, the Council of Ministers authorised the proposal for territorial distribution and the distribution criteria of EUR 430 million between the Autonomous Communities and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla. This investment from the PRTR corresponds to the “Rehabilitation Program for Economic and Social Recovery in Residential Environments”, which is endowed with 3,420 million euros, to achieve 160,000 actions before June 2026. These funds are intended for changes, for example, of windows in a particular home, digitization, installation of solar and photovoltaic panels, aerothermia or improvements of green areas.
In total, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda has made available to the CCAA about 4,000 million euros between what was delivered to communities and municipalities.
These funds were distributed as follows: A first annuity in 2021 of 1.151 billion euros, which are already 100% transferred to the CCAA. A second annuality in 2022 of 1,389 million euros, with a precision, as explained by the minister. “On the part of the Ministry, the first 50% was transferred between the CCAA. That is, EUR 694.5 million that are already fully transferred to all the regional CCAAs. However, the second 50% was linked to the fulfillment of an objective: certifying to the Ministry that they had already resolved aid for 25% of the intermediate objective of the Plan, before March 31, 2024. Currently, 329 million euros are still to be distributed, corresponding to the CCAA of Andalusia, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Murcia and Melilla.”
“This deadline, in order to be able to transfer the money to the CCAA, we have extended it until December 31, 2024, but with an extra condition: increase the target to 50% of resolutions. What if these regional CCAAs don’t reach the target? The amounts not transferred from 2022 and 2023 will be transferred to those regional CCAAs that have accredited to 31/12/2024 75% of resolutions,” said Isabel Rodríguez.
Agreement Council of Ministers – Sectoral Conference
Today’s agreement, corresponding to the annuality of 2023, and which is endowed with 430 million euros appropriated in the General State Budgets for 2023, incorporated into the annuality 2024, will have a distribution criterion as in the previous annuities, that is, it will be distributed in proportion to the number of households of the Continuous Household Survey (INE) of the year 2020.
To this end, MIVAU has established the following criteria to be met by December 31, 2024 in order to be able to transfer the funds:
1. That the number of resolutions made by the CCAA or autonomous city exceeds 75% of the target.
2. That the number of applications exceeds 75%, but it will have to be proven that those already resolved or executed exceed 50% of the aforementioned objective.
Therefore, from 1 January 2025, all the amounts corresponding to annuities 2022 and 2023 that have not been transferred (because they have not met the established requirements), will be distributed again between the Communities and autonomous cities that have met. All this will have to be ratified next Thursday at the Sectoral Conference on Housing and Urban Agenda, which already approved last January, unanimously, these 430 M.
Tax incentives and case study
Within the Rehabilitation Program, the minister has also highlighted the 450 million euros, within the 3.420 M of the Rehabilitation Program, which are intended for tax incentives. “Thanks to these incentives, which are budgeted and financed by MIVAU, anyone who carries out a rehabilitation work in their home can deduct a part of their cost in their next income tax return,” said the minister, along with an example.
“Marta makes a work of 5,000 euros in her property to improve energy efficiency, fulfilling the requirement of a 7% reduction in heating and cooling consumption. It receives an aid of 40%, which corresponds to 2,000 euros. That is, it would pay only 3,000 euros. But not only that, since on those 3,000 euros I would also have a deduction of income tax of 20%, which would be 600 euros. Therefore, Marta would pay half of what she would have paid without this rehabilitation aid.”
Signing of 44 agreements with CCAA regional
In addition to the rehabilitation, also within the PRTR, the minister has valued the Program of construction of homes for social rent in energy-efficient buildings, endowed with 1 billion euros.
“The objective of the Ministry was to build 20,000 homes, and with which we will sign this afternoon, we will greatly exceed the commitment, since we will reach about 25,000 homes in different phases: convenient, under construction or already delivered,” said Isabel Rodríguez.
This afternoon, MIVAU will sign 44 agreements that result in 3,233 new homes for 10 Autonomous Communities. “These agreements, which have to be signed before March 31, 2024 and finalized in 2026, are focused on co-governance with CCAA and City Councils to respond to Article 47 of the Spanish Constitution and to a goal that we have set ourselves: to turn housing into the fifth pillar of the Welfare State in this legislature,” concluded the minister.