Madrid fills up against the housing and rental crisis

Thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid to protest the unstoppable rise in rents and the shortage of homes. With a deficit of 700,000 homes according to the Bank of Spain and a cost increase of 13% year-on-year in 2025, protesters are demanding control over tourist rentals and more effective measures than those in Pedro Sánchez's €7 billion plan.

Thousands of protesters filling Madrid's Paseo del Prado during a massive protest, banners with red bar graphs showing a 13% increase in rents, people holding signs with housing icons and question marks, surveillance drones flying over the crowd, giant screens showing statistics of a 700,000 home deficit, residential buildings in the background with lit windows contrasting with tourist apartment signs, photorealistic cinematic style, autumn sunset lighting, wide depth of field, movement of waving flags, dense crowd in marching action, wet asphalt textures, hyper-detailed

The role of technology in public housing management 🏗️

To speed up the construction of the 700,000 needed homes, the sector is betting on industrialization and BIM. These technologies can reduce construction timelines by up to 30% and optimize costs. However, their implementation requires investment in training and collaborative platforms, something the government has not yet integrated into its public housing emergency plan.

The app that doesn't exist for finding a fairly priced apartment 📱

While protesters were demanding affordable housing, some developers dreamed of an app that would filter real rentals without sci-fi prices. But of course, programming such a solution requires more RAM than the ministry has to remember its promises. In the end, we'll have to wait for Sánchez's patch 2.0, which will surely come with paid DLC.