Mesa Vivienda asequible
Working Group 1
Affordable Housing
Access to affordable, adequate, and diverse housing in Madrid is a structural challenge that requires transforming the foundations on which housing supply and management are currently organised.
The Housing Working Group approaches this challenge from a comprehensive perspective, aware that guaranteeing the right to housing in Madrid means acting simultaneously across multiple dimensions, conceptual, regulatory, urban, and social, in a coordinated and sustained way over time.
Participants
The Housing Working Group brought together more than 140 participants, organised into four working groups. The first focused on public housing and protected housing stock. The second addressed urban regeneration and densification, starting from the fact that 98% of Madrid’s land is already built up. The third analysed new housing models suited to increasingly diverse ways of living. And the fourth focused on the refurbishment of the existing housing stock from a sustainability, efficiency, and accessibility perspective.
Affordable, protected, and public housing stock
New housing models and architectural typologies
Refurbishment
Urban regeneration and densification
Ideas discussed
This working group brought together representatives from institutional, technical, academic, and private-sector backgrounds. Their reflections point to the urgent need to increase housing supply, recognise affordable housing as an essential piece of urban infrastructure, transform the existing urban stock, rely on data to guide change, and adopt a more flexible and segmented approach that can respond to the different realities across the territory.
