The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, today highlighted the government’s commitment to reverse “the lowest emancipation rate in history in Galicia” with measures to support rent and access to housing among young people and exemplified this support in the 11.4 million euros of the second call for the Young Rent Bonus, which was approved last week by the Council of Ministers.
In an institutional visit to the City Council of Silleda, the delegate presented this agreement, which raises up to 34.2 million euros as part of the Government allocates to Galicia to develop the Xove Rental Voucher, “an unprecedented contribution”, he insisted.
The delegate recalled that the rental aid for young people was designed and implemented by the Government of Pedro Sánchez and is part “of a broad set that we have in place to turn housing into a real right and not a problem.” An essential measure in Galicia, he said, where “two out of three people under 35 still live with their parents.”
With respect to the new call for this aid, the delegate called on the Xunta to live up to the Government’s commitment to tackle this social emergency and to complete with its own funds the budget it receives from the Ministry. Pedro Blanco was convinced that the “Xunta will be consistent with its permanent messages of commitment to housing and will complete these funds”, because “it did not do it the previous time and they left thousands of Galicians without a help to which they were entitled”, he remarked.
In the week in which the Galician Government began the processing of the budgets for the year 2025, the delegate showed confidence that future accounts will include this autonomous contribution, which would allow that, as happens in other communities that opted to complete this program with their own funds, all young people and girls of Galicia who are entitled to this aid can access it.
Pedro Blanco stressed that “housing is a state policy” and consequently, it is accompanied by a budget that has no precedent in history and that requires the involvement of the autonomous communities to reach the citizens. “Our commitment is clear: we allocate more resources than ever to ensure access to decent and affordable housing,” the delegate insisted.
In this line, he asked the Xunta for loyalty in the execution of these transfers because it is these state funds that make it possible to materialize the announcements that the Galician Government is making in this matter.
Meeting in Silleda
In Silleda, the delegate reviewed the lines of the Government with the mayor, Paula Fernández, who is also part of the Housing and Urban Agenda Commission in the Congress of Deputies. At this meeting, which was also attended by the subdelegate of the Government in the province of Pontevedra, Abel Losada, they agreed on the need to consolidate housing as the fifth pillar of the Welfare State with public policies that help to fix population in small municipalities. The delegate put Silleda as a mirror of other municipalities for its dynamism and expansion from the heart of rural Galicia.