PARTIDO Popular (PP) leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo has promised to build one million homes and evict squatters within 48 hours during the next legislature if his party wins the general election.
The proposals come amid a deepening housing crisis that has sparked mass protests across Spain, with the current government’s housing decrees rejected by parliament triggering a snap election.
Speaking in Sevilla alongside Andalucia’s regional president Juanma Moreno, Feijoo said the shortage of homes was driving up pressure on renters and buyers.
He cited official figures showing that 240,000 new households are formed each year, while fewer than 100,000 homes are completed.
Feijoo also claimed government policies had removed 400,000 properties from the rental market, leaving Spain with an accumulated shortfall of nearly one million homes.
Feijoo promised that he will approve tax deductions for tennants and homeowners who extend their contracts for up to three years with increases below the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to calm the market.
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The PP also has plans to help young people buy their first homes.
Feijoo called their plan ‘the biggest help in history’ to buy a home and said that those under 40 who purchuse a new home will pay ‘zero taxes’.
“My goal is to build a new generation of homeowners in Spain,” Feijoo said, elaborating by giving an example.
“A young person who buys a €250,000 home after five years of work can save €25,000 in taxes and would need €50,000 less to sign the mortgage.”
His policy in one sentence would be, as he puts it, ‘We must reverse all the policies that have led to the worst housing crisis in our history.’
But Feijoo’s promises raise questions about how they would be delivered: building one million homes over the next four years would mean a sharp increase from the roughly 92,000 completed in 2025.
His claim that government policies removed 400,000 homes from the rental market also needs a clear source and definition.
Tax breaks and faster evictions may be part of his plan, but experts point to wider problems, including planning delays, construction bottlenecks and Spain’s limited supply of social housing.
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