The Government approves the purchase of land from Defensa to build some 20,000 affordable homes in 36 municipalities

The objective is to mobilize public land to increase the social housing park through 50 new actions distributed throughout the Spanish geography.

The Council of Ministers, at its meeting today, has approved allocating more disused Ministry of Defense soils to enhance urban development and the promotion of affordable housing. Specifically, it has given the green light to the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma) to acquire, through the Public Land Entity (SEPES), up to 8.25 million m2 of public land owned by Defensa to raise, in an estimated way, around 20,000 affordable homes through 50 actions. The estimated budget of the operation is around 514.3 million euros (without VAT).

Thus, the Government has entrusted Mitma, the Ministry of Finance and Public Service and the Ministry of Defense to process the legal instruments necessary to carry out the land sale operation between the Institute of Housing, Infrastructure and Defense Equipment (Invied) and SEPES, for its subsequent development for residential uses.

The initiative, framed in the Affordable Rental Housing Plan (PVAA), will make it possible to have public land in 36 municipalities spread throughout the Spanish geography for the development of public protection housing and thus contribute to guaranteeing the constitutional right to enjoy decent and adequate housing and that this availability is balanced throughout the territory. After the acquisition by SEPES, the entity will prepare the soils to be urbanizable and facilitate residential construction through public-private formulas that involve the cession of the soil.

The Defense lands included in this initiative are distributed in municipalities of Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Castilla La Mancha, Castilla y León, Ceuta, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Melilla and Valencia.

CCAA regional	Municipalities	Housing
Castile and Leon	León, Valladolid, Medina del Campo, Ávila	1,516
Castile La Mancha	Toledo Guadalajara	462
Extremadura	Mérida, Badajoz, Plansencia	465
Galicia	Ferrol, A Coruña and Pontevedra	486
Melilla	Melilla	972
Valencia	Alicante, Alcoy	112
Andalucia	Seville, San Fernando, Ronda, Málaga, Algeciras	659
Aragon	Zaragoza	120
Asturias	Oviedo	1,000
Canaries	Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, San Cristobal de la Laguna	393
Cantabria	Santander	257
Catalonia	Sant Boi de Llobregat	1,600
Ceuta	Ceuta	44
Madrid	Madrid	10,500
Murcia	Murcia, Lorca, Cartagena, San Javier	1.274
La Rioja	Logroño	16
TOTAL		19.876

SEPES, dependent on Mitma, currently has fifteen signed residential actions that will allow the development of 15,957 homes on public land, which in addition to the new agreements with Defensa give a total of 65 actions distributed throughout the geography to raise some 35,900 affordable homes.

The entity is already implementing a public land purchase program, such as the disused land of the barracks of Camp (Madrid), Son Busquets (Palma de Mallorca) or Engineers and Artillery (Valencia), or land in Basauri (San Sebastián) to promote the construction of affordable housing.

Actions already mobilized:

LOCALITY	PERFORMANCE	DWELLING
Málaga	Buenavista Residencial	1.362
Seville	artillery barracks	853
Ibiza (Balearic Islands)	Ca N’Escandell	464
Mahón (Baleares)	Vasallo	44
Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands)	Son Busquets	706
Madrid	Camp	10,700
Valencia	Artillery Park	600
Valencia	Headquarters of Engineers	438
Ceuta	Loma Colmenar	90
Melilla	Gabriel Molares	66
Batea (Tarragona)	Joan Miró	20
Sarriá de Ter (Girona)	El Trevol	90
Basauri (Biscay)	La Basconia	392
Navalmoral de la Mata (Caceres)	The Cartoons	120
Pedrafita do Cebreiro (Lugo)	Avenue of Castile	12
Total		15,957