Each month, the Barcelona Housing Consortium provides social rental fund homes to families in vulnerable situations. This morning, the Housing Councillor of Barcelona City Council, Lucía Martín, has handed over the keys to the flats where eight families who are facing economic difficulties and who are at risk of losing their homes will live from now on.
The flats from the social rental fund are intended for people in a situation of economic and social emergency. These are people who, for example, are at risk of losing their homes through an eviction process due to being in arrears with their rent, repossessions due to being in arrears with their mortgage payments, women in a situation of residential exclusion due to violence or where there are minors living in the home, or for the elderly or people in a situation of neglect or in which their hygiene, health and safety conditions are precarious.
The Housing Offices are responsible for processing the Emergency Board’s application. They will study the case and prepare a report that the Emergency Board will evaluate in order to allocate the available homes from the Social Rental Fund. This award process is done once a month. If there are not enough flats available to cover to all the positively valued applications, they will be awarded houses from the “Pisos Buits” (Empty Flats) Programme as they become available until the Board holds its meeting the following month. Families who find themselves in a vulnerable situation and who wish to apply for rehousing have to contact the “Habitatge et truca” (“Housing calls you”) service.
You will find all the information and the regulations of the Emergency Board on the Barcelona Housing Consortium’s website.