Overview
- Regional leaders approved changes to Plan Vive that raise local residency priority to five years and the next tier to ten years, expand sites to land from other administrations, and require public applicant lists with up‑to‑date tax data to speed allocations.
- Plan Vive will also ease income thresholds for two‑person households within its protected rent bands, and it continues to use long concessions on public land so private operators build and manage the homes.
- The region is redesigning the Mi primera vivienda mortgage‑guarantee program to drop the age cap for families with children and to include some non‑resident workers with at least two years in a Madrid workplace, while keeping five‑year hold rules and an inflation‑linked resale cap.
- City hall launched a separate EMVS track that opens selected public rental promotions to middle‑income applicants, with income ceilings set per project at 5.5 or 7.5 times Spain’s IPREM; the pilot is the 52‑home Iberia Loreto 1 development in Barajas, with online registration in the coming weeks and a June lottery.
- New city rules require applicants to be 18 to 50 years old, registered in Madrid for five straight years or eight of the past ten, and not own a home, with exclusions for recent convictions tied to illegal occupation or eviction for conduct or nonpayment; officials say rents will target about 30% of household income and most promotions will cap eligibility near €68,000, with a few up to about €90,000, a scope that has drawn criticism from Más Madrid and the PSOE for shifting focus from lower‑income demand.