page_title: Regalía de aposento
section_title: Enforcement
hierarchical_section_title: Regalía de aposento / Enforcement
caption_attribution_description: Español: Fachada principal de una casa a la malicia situada en la calle de la Redondilla de Madrid
context_page_description: The Regalía de aposento was a fee or royalty on housing that was instituted by the Crown of Castile in the Middle Ages.
context_section_description: The ignorance of the Royal Treasury officials regarding the status of many properties prevented effective enforcement of the charges. The rapid population growth experienced by the city (from 2,500 homes in 1561 quadrupling to 10,000 in 1618) and the ingenuity of the constructors of casas a la malicia resulted in the urban area becoming very compact by construction in interior and interstitial (gardens, patios, yards, alleys ...) spaces - certain buildings expanded their surface by the demolition of other preexisting ones or by addition of adjacent ones and others were reduced by compartmentalization - contributed to this problem.
  To improve the fairness of the tax, officials usually visited houses in the city in which anomalies were detected. The numbered tiles that were placed on houses as a consequence of that visit are still preserved on the facades of houses on the streets in the historic center of Madrid. This very ambitious effort bore fruit with the lifting of the Planimetría General de Madrid and the Cadastre of the Town and Court, between 1749 and 1759, with comprehensive documentation that attested to the need for population control, especially in the city of Madrid on the part of the bureaucracy of the Spanish monarchy. However, control was difficult, as demonstrated by the events of the 1766 (Esquilache Riots) not long after.
caption: Numbered tile on Casa a la malicia in Barrio de La Latina, Madrid.
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