The secretary general of Housing and Urbanism and director of the Galician Institute of Housing and Land (IGVS), Heriberto García, has defended the incorporation of various adjustments in the accompanying law of the Galician budgets of 2027 in order to "streamline" housing development, through an urgent and preferential processing of licenses for protected housing and with reduced deadlines "by half".
In his intervention before the Galician Parliament, he has stressed that the Xunta's housing policies for 2027 will have 520 million, "by far the largest investment in its entire history". This allocation comes from 293 million from the IGVS, with an increase of 8.5%, 224 million from the company Vivenda Pública de Galicia (Vipugal), which rises by 188%, and 2.7 million from the Consorcio Casco Vello de Vigo.
Of the total, 326 million are allocated directly to the construction of public housing, "double" that of 2026, so that "two out of every three euros are for building new public homes". In addition, 37.5 million are earmarked to continue developing land for protected housing and 71 million in aid for rehabilitation for rental purposes. The specific aid to facilitate access to housing increases by 5.5%, surpassing 46 million.
Heriberto García has stressed that 80% of the regional resources in housing are own funds, 418 million, while the earmarked state funds stand at 51 million, "less than 10%". All this is framed within the objective of reaching 10,000 public homes in Galicia by 2030.
Among the measures, he has focused on the new reservation of 20% of the developments for people registered in the demand register for more than 5 years, and on maintaining the current quotas: 25% of protected homes for purchase for those under 36 years of age, 30% for those between 36 and 45 years of age with children, and 40% of the homes for rent reserved for young people.
Likewise, he has alluded to regulatory changes so that every publicly owned dwelling obtains permanent protected status and is allocated through the register of applicants, something he considers a "self-evident truth", but which he deems essential in the face of cases such as that of the state entity Casa 47, with rents of 800 euros, "above market prices", and "without attending to the register of applicants". The income limit to access these dwellings is also maintained at up to four times the Iprem, or 4.5 times in large families.
Along with these measures, he has highlighted new lines such as the 7 million aimed at municipalities promoting public-development housing, with subsidies of up to 80,000 euros per dwelling.
Criticisms of the Santiago City Council
At another point in his intervention, the head of the IGVS has taken the opportunity to denounce the "difficulties" they encounter to "push through matters in the municipality of Santiago" and has reproached that "the greatest milestone" of Santiago as a stressed area is "rehabilitating six dwellings to allocate them to protected housing".
Reproaches from the opposition in Parliament
The session of the Galician Parliament's Committee on Economy this Friday has been marked by a decision that the opposition describes as "unheard of" in the Chamber's history and as a "democratic outrage". PP deputy Gonzalo Trenor, who was chairing the committee, chose to suspend it for five minutes "until" socialist deputy Aitor Bouza "calms down", who finally left the meeting in protest.
Before this incident, Aitor Bouza had accused the Xunta of "not complying" with the housing budget and had censured the fact that only a hundred flats have been handed over so far in 2026, in addition to criticizing the years of paralysis of the Galician PP Government in matters of public housing since 2009.
For her part, Alexandra Fernández (BNG) has called on the Xunta to specify how many of the 4,000 public housing units announced will actually have this status, understanding that it seeks to generate confusion between "promotion" and public "ownership".
By contrast, Popular deputy Moisés Rodríguez has underscored the relevance of the 520 million planned for 2027 in the Xunta's housing policies, which he described as a historic figure.