The Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, held a working meeting with the mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Carolina Darias. The minister has shown her support for the declaration of the Canarian capital as a stressed residential market area.
Likewise, both have addressed the various housing investments that the Government of Spain is making in the municipality and the opportunities for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria that the new State Housing Plan 2026-2030, which the Executive is working on, opens up.
The city council explained that it has resubmitted the application to the Executive of Fernando Clavijo (CC), which has exclusive competence in housing matters, so that the measures included in the state law can be established.
The initial application was sent to the Canary Islands Executive in May 2024, so that it could initiate the relevant procedures, and in January 2025, it submitted the supplementary documentation consisting of a report certifying that the city meets three of the four requirements established by Law 12/2023 on the Right to Housing.
The report, prepared in collaboration with the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, was based on official data from, for the most part, the National Statistics Institute (INE), the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, and the Canary Islands Statistics Institute (ISTAC).
According to the ministry, public data from INCASÒL for the second quarter of 2025 show a 1.9% decrease in rental prices in declared rent-controlled areas of Catalonia and a 4.9% decrease in the city of Barcelona. Furthermore, active rental contracts have increased by 14,124 since the initial declaration.
At the same time, the declaration of a stressed market area entails the establishment of specific public measures or aid in the State Housing Plan. In this way, a subsidized housing development built through public-private collaboration in the capital would receive a subsidy of 4,250 euros more per dwelling compared to if there had been no declaration. And if, furthermore, it were built using industrialization techniques, the increase would amount to 8,500 euros per dwelling.
