Vitoria has been declared a tense residential area
The qualification of the Alavesa capital will have an initial duration of three years and will make it possible to implement various housing decisions, including the construction of protected housing: 3,012 new housing units will be promoted, 53% of which will be for protected rent.
It has been published in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country(BOPV) that Vitoria-Gasteiz has been declared a tense residential market area, but this classification will not officially enter into force until its publication in the Official Gazette of the State, which is expected by the end of October.
In particular, the BOPV today publishes an order from the Housing and Urban Agenda Counsellor, Denis Itxaso, declaring the entire urban area and the rural area of Abetxuko, Aretxabaleta, Armentia, Betoño, Ali and Gardelegito be a tense area by the small entity .
This measure, which affects the area in which 256,000 people live (97.9% of the population of Vitoria-Gasteiz), 'will make it possible to control rental prices and implement public policies to build more than 3,000 sheltered housing units in 3 years', the City Council and the Basque Government have reported in a press release.
Since July, San Sebastián has been a tense area, and by the end of October, the BOE will formalize the declaration as a tense housing area of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Bilbao, Astigarraga and Usurbil. When this happens, 47.7% of the population of the Basque Country will live in tense areas, a percentage that will exceed 50% in the coming months.
The Basque Government is preparing an event in the coming weeks for the declaration of the three Basque capitals as strained areas, which will be attended by the Minister of the area, Isabel Rodríguez.
For her part, the mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Maider Etxebarria, has stressed that with the designation of the city as a tense area, "a set of public policies can be implemented to correct market dysfunctions and increase the affordable residential offer".
The qualification of the Alavesa capital will have an initial duration of three years and will make it possible to implement a housing crash plan, including the construction of protected housing: 3,012 new housing units will be promoted, 53% of which will be protected leases.
In addition, rent prices may be limited andthe limits provided for in the Housing Act may be applied. In the case of Álava, and with the reference index for setting this limit, Eustat is developing a methodology by crossing tax information with its databases and those of the Housing Department, which may be available for the first half of 2026.
The Plan is also committed to rehabilitation by providing more support for energy efficiency, accessibility and the habitability of housing and residential buildings; by imposing a 50 per cent surcharge on uninhabited housing in the IBI (to which other tax measures may be added); and by enabling low-floor premises and temporary accommodation formulae for young people, the elderly and vulnerable groups.
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