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Government Reactivates Artillery PAI for 600 Public Homes in València

The announcement comes as the Engineers' Barracks PAI, with 400 homes, has yet to begin construction eight years after its initial announcement.

Generic image of a modern public housing building in a Mediterranean city.
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Generic image of a modern public housing building in a Mediterranean city.

The Spanish Government has announced the reactivation of the Artillery PAI in València, which foresees the construction of around 600 public homes, while the Engineers' Barracks project, with 400 homes, has yet to begin construction eight years after its initial announcement.

The director of the public housing company Casa47, Leire Iglesias, stated during her visit to València that the public company has tendered for 134,224 euros the drafting of the project to urbanize the Artillery Park plot, located between San Vicente and Carteros streets, south of the city.
This action is a preliminary step to build around 900 homes —600 of them public—, green areas, and educational facilities on one of the main public land plots available in the Valencian capital. It involves a land area of over 6.8 hectares.
However, this progress announcement comes as the nearby Engineers' Barracks PAI, located a few meters further south on the same San Vicente street in the La Raiosa neighborhood, is still waiting for the construction of the promised 438 homes to begin.
It was in 2018 when the then Minister of Public Works, José Luis Ábalos, announced the construction of public housing on these former military lands. Since then, the area has been presented on several occasions as an imminent action within the state housing policy.
In 2023, the Government ceded land management to the Generalitat Valenciana to promote protected housing, but the agreement eventually stalled due to bureaucratic delays. In January 2025, the Executive decided to regain control of the project and directly assume the development of part of the land, tendering the drafting of the first buildings, which would comprise around 128 homes.
The Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, stated that thanks to not having completed that transfer, “today we can say that Valencians will have the possibility of having public, affordable, real housing, unlike the Alicante model of the Popular Party”.
Regarding the urbanization of the Engineers' PAI plots, this phase was completed in the summer of 2025. Nevertheless, housing construction has yet to start. Iglesias explained that administrative procedures are still pending: “We will request a building permit as soon as we receive some pending documents from the City Council and the Department of Culture”.
In total, more than 900 public homes are projected on state-owned land in València, but their construction has not yet begun, and deadlines practically rule out their completion within this legislature.

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