Almeida plans to build 4,100 homes in 2025

He Madrid City Hall presented the budgets for 2025 with great momentum in the areas of housing and urban planning. The first will have 219.8 million euros intended to manage and promote public rental housing, rehabilitation and urban regeneration, or 5 million more than in 2024, which represents an increase of 2.3%. For its part, town planning will be the responsibility of the Town Hall of José Luis Martinez-Almeidawhich has a larger budget with a total of 1,914 million euros, or 161 million more than this year.

THE Municipal Housing and Land Company of Madrid (EMVS Madrid) will have 168 million euros, with a planned investment of more than 80 million, to ensure financial coverage for the implementation of 11 programs (865 housing units), which will achieve a net value of 10,000 housing by the end of the year. 2025 for affordable rent. In 2025, work and calls for tenders for works and projects for more than twenty programs (3,100 housing units) will continue. We must also add the Suma Vivienda Plan, with more than 1,600 housing units in its first phase and the call for tenders for the second phase, with 600 additional housing units.

In terms of rehabilitation, the plans that make up the Transform Madrid Strategy such as the Adapta Plan, the Rehabilitation Plan and the Transform Your Neighborhood Plan will continue to be promoted. Thanks to aid from these plans, over the last five years, the Town Hall has rehabilitated 100,000 homes, benefiting 217,000 people.

In 2025, the Housing advisory service (SAVMadrid), in which nearly 9,000 requests have already been processed. The Green Office will continue to advise citizens. More than 10,000 companies grouped into various entities and professional associations in the energy efficiency sector are represented in this office, in which more than 4,500 requests have been answered and more than 6,000 monthly visits have been received on its website.

Alongside the rehabilitation of buildings, the urban regeneration of degraded environments is fundamental in housing policies. To this end, the Strategic Neighborhood Regeneration Plan is currently being developed. Next year, six urban regeneration actions will be carried out in the neighborhoods of Villaverde, Villa de Vallecas, Moratalaz, Carabanchel, Latina and Hortaleza. Likewise, work to adapt the agricultural practices of the five plots allocated to the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Incubator initiatives will begin.

For his part, Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility It will be the area of ​​​​Madrid City Hall that will have the largest budget in 2025 with a total of 1,914 million euros for the 2025 financial year, or 161 million more than this year, which represents an increase of almost by 9.2%. The most important projects will be linked to the creation of more sustainable urban spaces such as the construction of South West Green Walk, promoting new urban developments to create more housing, improve city cleanliness, conserve green spaces and improve mobility.

An “unprecedented” investment effort

Almeida highlighted this Thursday the “unprecedented” investment effort that the Madrid City Hall in 2025 with their budgets, which are committed to “social cohesion” and which want to consolidate the economic moment that the capital is experiencing. The first mayor sent a message of “confidence and tranquility” to all Madrid residents because they have a “solid and stable” government that continues to govern “for all and responsibly.”

These are accounts based on compliance with budgetary rules, in addition to being “prudent from the point of view of economic growth figures”, since the increase adapts to growth forecasts of the Gross domestic product (GDP) in the city of Madrid, or around 2.7%.

In addition, the councilor highlighted the three pillars on which they rest, which “consolidate” the economic strength of the city, “the economic engine of Spain”; generate “the best conditions for quality of life and strengthen public services”, as well as maintaining social cohesion. Martínez-Almeida stressed that taxes would continue to fall to encourage economic growth.