communities Madrid, Andalusia, Aragon, Cantabrian, Castile and Leon, Castile la Mancha And Murciaalso autonomous city Melilla, None of the applications for the Youth Rental Bond, created a little more than a year ago, to give a positive result. 250 Euros per month for citizens under 35 years of age.
In these autonomous communities, as can be seen from the Government’s parliamentary response to several PP deputies the number of applications increased to 84,813 in December 2022, but the number of positive decisions was zero.
This Community-administered state aid is granted for a period of two years, with a maximum of EUR 6,000. Installments spread over 24 months. To access the subsidy, the rental income must be less than or equal to 600 euros per month. In case of room rental, the price must be less than or equal to 300 Euros per month.
In the community where they perform most requests to date Madrid, total 31,755; Andalusia followed with 17,280; Castilla y Leon with 17,624; Castilla-La Mancha with 6,880; Aragon with 6,835; Cantabria with 2,798; Murcia with 1,546 and Melilla with 95.
Despite last year’s delay, communities such as Madrid have already announced the first beneficiaries of the measure, while Andalusia said it will begin resolving applications for the March call within the same month.
Catalonia took more positive decisions
On the other side is Catalonia. 9,753 of the 39,347 applications made were positive, which is equivalent to a resolution percentage of 24.7%. Next in the number of resolved applications was Valencia, with 650 out of a total of 20,244 submitted.
Total, The government announced that at the end of last year, a total of 12,425 applications were successful, out of a total of 182,026 applications submitted.. In other words, less than 7% of applications received access to help.
The executive has budgeted this plan for a total of €400m, half in 2022 and half this year. In its parliamentary response, the government also detailed the amounts allocated to each autonomous community for this rent assistance. Thus, it can be said that Madrid and Andalusia benefited the most, with 31.8 and 34.2 million euros, respectively, from the regions where no aid was given.
These were followed by Catalonia with 29 million euros and Valencia with 22.8 million euros. Total, The budget allocated for this measure in 2022 reached 200 million euros.