Order VAU/1167/2026 requires the regions to report to the Ministry of Housing every grant, amendment, revocation or payment under the State Housing Plan

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda has set the system by which it will monitor the implementation of the State Housing Plan 2026-2030. Order VAU/1167/2026, of 4 November, published in the BOE of 6 November and in force since Saturday 7 November 2026, regulates "the mechanisms, deadlines and periodicity" by which the autonomous communities and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla must supply the Ministry with monitoring, control and evaluation information on the Plan's actions, through shared computer systems and a single integrated dashboard.

The order implements article 154 of Royal Decree 326/2026, of 22 April, which regulates the State Housing Plan 2026-2030, and turns the continuous information-recording duty provided for in that royal decree into an automated, machine-to-machine transmission system, with electronic acknowledgement of receipt, standardised indicators, periodic reports and control certificates for each funded action.

Monthly transmission and event-driven transmission

The operational core is article 4. Information is transmitted by machine-to-machine communication between the regions' systems and the platform set up by the Ministry's ICT Division, which will issue an electronic acknowledgement for each transmission, with date and time of receipt and the result of the technical validations: accepted, accepted with warnings or rejected, with the list of errors where applicable.

The reporting load has two lanes. The first is monthly transmission: within the first five calendar days of each month, the regions must transmit in full the indicators identified as monthly, referring to the previous calendar month. The second is event-driven transmission: whenever a relevant change occurs, information must be submitted, including, among other cases, "the granting, amendment, revocation or payment of aid; the addition or modification of beneficiaries; the updating of funded actions; or the recording of milestones in meeting objectives and indicators". In practice, the Ministry will receive almost immediate notice of every economic movement under the Plan, including every payment.

A data model with living technical instructions

The model for electronic transmission is set and updated by the Directorate-General for Planning and Evaluation, and the technical and operational conditions (interfaces, formats, validation rules, versioning) will be developed through Technical Instructions of the ICT Division, to be published and made available to the obliged entities. Article 3.4 requires that updates introducing incompatible changes be published at least one month in advance and provides for version coexistence periods to allow senders to adapt. However: the instructions may not alter "the substantive content of the information supply obligations, their periodicity or their compliance deadlines".

Transmission will follow the National Interoperability Scheme (Royal Decree 4/2010) and will be channelled through Red SARA, the common communications infrastructure of the public administrations. On security, article 6 refers to the National Security Scheme (Royal Decree 311/2022), with technical credentials for unambiguous identification of the sender, mechanisms for registration, rotation and deactivation, and preservation of the confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity and traceability of the information, with special attention to restricted data and data protection rules.

The Integration and Support Service Centre

The order creates the Integration and Support Service Centre of the State Housing Plan as the single point of contact for technical integration, credential management, incident resolution and operational monitoring of the exchange. It is managed by the Ministry's ICT Division and will provide support at least by web form and email, with an identifier assigned to each incident for traceability. It will also communicate planned maintenance windows and mass incidents affecting the service.

Indicators, publication and transparency

The order's annex deploys the Plan's monitoring indicators, complementing the minimum information requirements of article 154.2 of Royal Decree 326/2026. For the aid lines, the annex requires data as specific as the number of homes to be acquired or built under the monitoring committee agreements, the amount of aid per dwelling, or the milestones for homes under construction: grant resolution, works commencement certificate, 50% execution certificate and final works certificate issued by the technical supervision. It also breaks down the dwellings with increased aid for industrialised construction, for action in stressed residential market areas or for allocation to persons with severe dependency or disability. The Directorate-General for Planning and Evaluation may issue interpretative instructions and methodological notes to homogenise the calculation throughout the territory.

Article 9 adds a transparency dimension: the Directorate-General may agree to publish aggregated information on objectives and indicators, to facilitate public monitoring of the Plan's degree of implementation, always with protection of personal data.

Quarterly and annual reports, and certificates per action

Beyond the automated flow, article 10 (implementing article 156 of Royal Decree 326/2026) requires the regions to produce quarterly monitoring reports and an annual evaluation report. The quarterly reports, to be submitted before the end of the month following the quarter under review, must describe the cumulative evolution of the indicators, compare the values achieved with the planned objectives and identify deviations and corrective measures. The annual report must be submitted before 31 January of the following year and will include the summary of indicators, the compliance forecasts for the following year, the updated estimate of objectives when the funding lines have been readjusted under article 7 of the royal decree, and a detailed report of the control actions carried out on the grants, applying the seventh rule of article 86.2 of Law 47/2003, the General Budgetary Law.

Article 11 also requires the head of each region's managing body to complete, sign and submit certifications for each Plan action, attesting among other things to the indefinite permanence of the protection regime of the funded dwellings without possibility of declassification, where applicable, and to the allocation of dwellings through the public register of applicants or other objective, transparent and public formulas.

Transitional regime until 1 June 2027

Aware that machine-to-machine integration will not be operational immediately in all administrations, the sole transitional provision allows the Ministry to enable, until 1 June 2027, alternative submission tools where integration is not fully operational or technical incidents arise, with guarantees of integrity, traceability and security. Use of the transitional route exempts neither from the periodicity of article 4 nor from the continuous recording duty of article 154.2 of the royal decree.

The order is issued under article 149.1.13 of the Constitution (bases and coordination of the general planning of economic activity) and its third additional provision provides that the information generated will serve as the basis for the Housing Advisory Council to formulate observations and recommendations for improving the Plan.

Context: the Plan now being monitored

The State Housing Plan 2026-2030, approved by Royal Decree 326/2026, is the piece from which the aid this publication has detailed in recent weeks derives, such as the Plan's direct rental aid of up to 250 euros a month or the aid for refurbishing empty homes for affordable rent. Order VAU/1167/2026 is the other side of those calls: the mechanism by which the Ministry will check, region by region and grant by grant, how the funds are executed. It also forms part of the last year's housing legislative package, which includes RDL 29/2026 on seasonal rentals and evictions and the rental extension of RDL 28/2026, as well as the declaration of stressed residential market areas, a category that appears expressly in the annex indicators.

Frequently asked questions

Who must transmit State Housing Plan information?

The autonomous communities and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, as the administrations implementing the Plan in their territory, by machine-to-machine transmission to the Ministry's platform.

How often is information submitted?

Monthly (within the first five calendar days of the following month) and, in addition, whenever a relevant event occurs, such as the granting, amendment, revocation or payment of aid.

What if the technical integration is not ready?

Until 1 June 2027, submission through alternative tools enabled by the Ministry is allowed, but with no exemption from the periodicity and continuous recording obligations.

Sources

• Order VAU/1167/2026, of 4 November (BOE-A-2026-23270)