Spain's PP sets out its one-million-homes plan, built on deemed approvals and help for young buyers

Spain's opposition Partido Popular set out a ten-point economic package in a party note on 27 September 2026, led by a pledge to create the conditions for one million homes in four years. It proposes an anti-squatting law, legal certainty for owners and tenants, and faster procedures favouring "positive silence", under which an application counts as approved if the authority fails to answer. Young people would get a "hucha hogar" (literally a home piggy bank) or public guarantees of up to 95 or 100 percent, and tax cuts of up to 60 percent. The party calls housing Spain's "great regulatory failure". These are opposition pledges, not legislation.

Deemed approval is the design choice to watch: it shifts the cost of delay from builders to the authority. The open questions are what happens when a permit granted by silence breaches planning rules, and how much demand-side support ends up in prices if supply lags.