Ministry of Housing (Spain)
Government ministry of Spain
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda[1] (Spanish: Ministerio de la Vivienda y Agenda Urbana) is a department of the Government of Spain responsible for proposing and carrying out the government policy on right to housing, buildings, urban planning, land use and architecture.
| Ministerio de la Vivienda y Agenda Urbana | |
Ministry of Housing building | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | February 25, 1957 |
Preceding agency | |
| Type | Ministry |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Spain |
| Headquarters | 67, Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid, Spain |
| Annual budget | € 3.5 billion, 2026 |
Minister responsible |
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Agency executives |
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This ministry existed in three different periods. The first one was during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The ministry was first established in 1957.[2] The aim was to create a class of home owners, leaving renting and delayed owning as an exception.[3] The second one during the democratic period, from 2004 to 2010, when Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced that the Ministry of Housing would be suppressed to reduce public spending.[4] The third period started in late 2023, when prime minister Pedro Sánchez re-established the department.
The current Housing Minister is, since 21 November 2023, Isabel Rodríguez García, who previously served as minister of Territorial Policy and Government spokesperson between 2021 and 2023.[5]
Structure

The Ministry is structured as follows:[6]
- The Secretariat of State for Housing and Urban Agenda
- The General Secretariat for Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture
- The Directorate-General for Urban Agenda and Architecture
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Urban Policies
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Architecture and Building
- The Directorate-General for Housing and Land
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Housing Policy and Financial Assistance
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Land, Information and Evaluation
- The Directorate-General for Planning and Evaluation
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Planning and Evaluation
- The Directorate-General for Urban Agenda and Architecture
- The General Secretariat for Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture
- The Undersecretariat
- The Technical General Secretariat
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Economic and Services Coordination.
- The Deputy Directorate-General for General Affairs and Public Procedurement.
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Human Resources and Inspection of Services.
Agencies
- CASA 47
- The House of Architecture (national museum)
Budget
- Housing policy 3,439.5 (98.7%)
- Housing regulation and urban policy 37.2 (1.07%)
- Administration and general services 6.9 (0.20%)
For fiscal year 2023, extended to 2026, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda has a consolidated budget of €3.5 billion.[7]
The budget can be divided in three main areas:[7]
- Housing policy (Programs 26BA, 26BB & 261N), covering the ministry’s main housing interventions, including residential rehabilitation, construction of social housing, and financial support to facilitate access to housing.
- Housing regulation and urban policy (261O & 261P), which funds activities related to building standards, architecture, urban planning and land policy.
- Administration and general services (261M), covering the Ministry’s central services and administrative structure.
In addition, Programme 000X (“Internal Transfers and Disbursements”) is excluded from the analysis, as it consists of transfers between public sector entities and would otherwise lead to double counting and distort the overall budget.
Audit
The Ministry's accounts, as well as those of its agencies, are internally audited by the Office of the Comptroller General of the State (IGAE), through a Delegated Comptroller's Office within the Department itself. Externally, the Court of Auditors is responsible for auditing expenditures.
Likewise, the Congress of Deputies and the Senate Committees on Housing and Urban Agenda, exercise political control over the accounts.
List of officeholders
Office name:
- Ministry of Housing (1957–1977; 2004–2010)
- Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (2023–present)
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Government | Prime Minister (Tenure) |
Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||||||
| José Luis de Arrese (1905–1986) |
25 February 1957 |
18 March 1960 |
3 years and 22 days | National Movement (FET–JONS) |
Franco V | Francisco Franco (1939–1975) |
[8] [9] | |||
| Pedro Gual Villalbí (ordinary discharge of duties) (1885–1968) |
18 March 1960 |
21 April 1960 |
34 days | National Movement (Nonpartisan) |
[10] [11] | |||||
| José María Martínez Sánchez-Arjona (1905–1977) |
21 April 1960 |
11 July 1962 |
9 years and 192 days | National Movement (FET–JONS) |
[12] [13] [14] [15] | |||||
| 11 July 1962 |
8 July 1965 |
Franco VI | ||||||||
| 8 July 1965 |
30 October 1969 |
National Movement (Nonpartisan) |
Franco VII | |||||||
| Vicente Mortes (1921–1991) |
30 October 1969 |
12 June 1973 |
3 years and 225 days | National Movement (Nonpartisan) |
Franco VIII | [16] | ||||
| José Utrera Molina (1926–2017) |
12 June 1973 |
31 December 1973 |
202 days | National Movement (FET–JONS) |
Carrero Blanco | Luis Carrero Blanco (1973) |
[17] | |||
| Luis Rodríguez de Miguel (1910–1982) |
4 January 1974 |
12 December 1975 |
1 year and 342 days | National Movement (Nonpartisan) |
Arias Navarro I | Carlos Arias Navarro (1973–1976) |
[18] [19] | |||
| Francisco Lozano Vicente (1922–2006) |
12 December 1975 |
5 July 1976 |
1 year and 205 days | National Movement (Nonpartisan) |
Arias Navarro II | [20] [21] [22] | ||||
| 8 July 1976 |
5 July 1977 |
Suárez I | Adolfo Suárez (1976–1981) | |||||||
| Office disestablished during this interval.[a] | ||||||||||
| María Antonia Trujillo (born 1960) |
18 April 2004 |
9 July 2007 |
3 years and 82 days | PSOE | Zapatero I | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004–2011) |
[23] [24] | |||
| Carme Chacón (1971–2017) |
9 July 2007 |
14 April 2008 |
280 days | PSC–PSOE | [25] [26] | |||||
| Beatriz Corredor (born 1968) |
14 April 2008 |
21 October 2010 |
2 years and 190 days | PSOE | Zapatero II | [27] [28] | ||||
| Office disestablished during this interval.[b] | ||||||||||
| Isabel Rodríguez (born 1981) |
21 November 2023 |
Incumbent | 2 years, 259 days | PSOE | Sánchez III | Pedro Sánchez (2018–present) |
[29] | |||
Notes
- The department's competences were transferred to the Ministry of Public Works between 1977 and 2004.
- The department's competences were transferred to the Ministry of Development between 2010 and 2023.