The Parliament of Catalonia approves the Rental Price Regulation Law
Housing. The law enables rental prices to be frozen and reduced in 60 Catalan municipalities.
Experts debate the competency framework and possible scenarios for the regulation of rent prices in the third session of the study commission
Housing. Most experts agree on the need to establish some kind of regulation and the debate has focussed on how to do it and the...
Barcelona ten-point declaration on the right to housing
Housing. Thirty city organisations are backing the ten measures set out in the document.
Energy Advice Point inquiries increase by 10% during the health crisis
Energy rights. The first six months of 2020 saw over 17,000 people attended to. Most inquiries were about changing the electricity...
The moratorium on the payment of instalments for public housing is extended for two months
The extension affects all premises managed by IMHAB and payment is deferred until 1 October.
Adjudication of three new collective housing developments
Three cooperatives will construct new buildings in municipal plots located in the districts of Sants-Montjuïc, Sant Andreu and Nou Barris.
Handover of keys to the apartments of a new development of 68 homes in the Llacuna neighbourhood of El Poblenou
The project has the highest energy classification and will provide an alternative of affordable housing for some 280 persons.
The Barcelona Metropolitan Housing Observatory analyses the structure and concentration of housing ownership in the city
One-third of Barcelona’s rental housing stock belongs to large landlords
Licences for 597 tourist flats revoked because of infringements to regulations
Housing. The plan to control the sector and protect the right to housing has cut the number of illegal lets from 6,000 to 300.
New administrative mechanism to put empty flats in the city to social use
Housing. If the flats are not made available to rent within one month, measures such as fines or expropriation warnings will be...