The Government launches an online portal to request 800 affordable rental homes

The homes of the public company Casa 47 can be requested starting this Monday through a new online portal that starts with 800 affordable rental apartments available. This was announced by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who has announced that "very soon" another 1,500 properties spread throughout the national territory will be added to them. He has assured that this new way of accessing state public housing will guarantee an "agile" and "transparent" process.

Starting this Monday, anyone can consult the available homes, an offer that, as explained by the President of the Government, will be expanded every quarter. Through this same website (portal.casa47.es), applications from interested parties will also be sent and managed, who will have to meet the required requirements. You will be asked to identify yourself, select the desired call and fill out the necessary information. The order of application will not determine the order of award, but rather it will be done by lottery before a notary.

The homes offered through the new website are public affordable rental apartments in which the Government has committed that no tenant will spend more than 30% of their income paying for it. To do this, the characteristics of the homes will be taken into account, but also the "economic reality" of the area where they are located. "We must make having a house a realistic aspiration, within people's reach. With realistic rents for real salaries," said Sánchez.

The objective is also to promote a "stable rental", so the initial duration of the contracts will be 14 years, with the possibility of successive extensions up to a period of 75 years, as long as the access requirements continue to be maintained. The Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, has also recalled that the Casa 47 apartments have permanent protection, so that they cannot be disqualified over the years and sold as free homes.