The state-owned entity Sareb has taken on toxic assets from banks since 2012, including numerous homes from bailed-out entities, and has transferred 45,000 homes for affordable rent across Spain this year.
The new state agency will emerge from the transformation currently underway of the Public Business Land Entity (Sepes), which has traditionally been responsible for public land management and which, with the transformation, will also be able to be a developer and manager of public housing at the state level.
The resulting agency will have approximately 400 employees. Sepes currently has 172 employees, but it already has authorization to launch a public employment offer to reach 238 employees.
According to data obtained by eldiario.es through Transparency, the new agency already has **115 homes in Lanzarote** that it must allocate to affordable rent
Most are in Arrecife, where they have 79 properties. The second municipality with the most transferred houses is Yaiza, where there are 13 homes.
In San Bartolomé there are 10 houses, while in Teguise there are eight homes and in Tías five.
The new public company will offer rents below the market average so that its tenants do not have to allocate more than 30% of their income to paying their lease.
The Government's Delegate Commission for Economic Affairs established a series of geographical, economic, and technical criteria, such as these homes being located in municipalities in metropolitan areas and islands, with populations exceeding 5,000 inhabitants or more than 1,000 with increases of more than 5% in the last decade.
