Installing elevators, repairing facades, changing community boilers, installing vehicle charging stations or eliminating traces of asbestos are some of the main works financed by the Madrid City Council Rehabilitation Plan, which presented this Monday its fifth edition. The main novelty of this call, which has a budgetary allocation of 50 million eurosis that the aid also includes improving the safety of electrical and fire prevention installations (up to 60%) and the development of common areas (up to 80%) to combat the “island effect heat” in cities.
Subsidies can be requested from tomorrow, Tuesday October 15, and for the next four months (until February 14) at any civil registry office in the Town Hall or electronically at
The help of this plan extends between 40% and 90% of the cost of the workwhich can reach up to 10,000 euros per household, depending on the type of action. Subsidies are paid in advance for the entirety of the aid granted, once the building permit has been obtained, so it will not be necessary to wait for the work to be completed to receive them.
This plan is aimed at buildings built before 1998 throughout the city, with the creation of a range of vulnerable spaces with a higher subsidy amount, differentiating Special Urban Transformation Zones (ZETU) or Promotion Zones energy rehabilitation (ZIRE). .
In his speech, the housing delegate, Álvaro González, highlighted that it is “essential” to promote the renovation of buildings already constructed, transforming them into “more sustainable, efficient and resilient spaces”. “And in this impulse, Administrations play a fundamental role. It is important to reflect on how this municipal plan has improved the daily practices of citizens and the well-being of their families,” he stressed.
244 million euros
“Madrid City Hall is committed to housing and families, particularly the youngest, and the Rehabilitation Plan is an essential element of this commitment,” underlined the deputy mayor of the capital, Inmaculada Sanz, during the the presentation of a plan. that since the previous mandate has managed to improve “more than 93,000 housing units with a tangible impact on thousands of people. During these five years, they invested nearly 244 million euros in these reform projects. Furthermore, the number of energy rehabilitation actions increased by 50%, with the installation of more than 1,200 elevators and the removal of asbestos from 5,000 homes.
Sanz highlighted the great reception of the plan among Madrid residents, which, in its four editions, increased the number of applications from 1,615 in 2020 to 2,583 in 2023 (8,578 applications in four editions).
