Inversión de carácter social e industrialización en el medio rural

The window of opportunity is extremely specific: the State Housing Plan 2026–2030 sets an endowment of €7,000 million, with an explicit distribution of 40% for an increase in the supply of subsidised housing, 30% for rehabilitation, and a quantified objective of reducing the consumption of non-renewable primary energy by 30% in more than 260,000 homes, in addition to introducing purchase subsidies in municipalities at demographic risk (greater than €10,800) and an affordability criterion for that access does not exceed 30% of income. At the same time, the rural bottleneck is measured in units: the 2021 Census places 3,837,328 empty homes in Spain (14.4% of the stock), and in municipalities with less than 1,000 inhabitants the percentage of empty homes reaches 33.3%, with 551,377 empty homes and a ratio of 38.3 empty homes per 100 inhabitants. And the territorial differential is also seen in demographics: in the EU, 25% of the population lives in rural areas, while in Spain (Eurostat, “degree of urbanisation”, 2018) the population in rural areas is around 14%.