The Generalitat will assume more than half of the cost of the reviews to determine the condition of the 22 buildings, which total 420 homes, in the same development as the one that collapsed on February 6 in Badalona.
The Minister of Territory, Ester Capella; The mayor of Badalona, ??Xavier Garcia Albiol, and the executive vice president of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), Antonio Balmón, explained today, after the meeting of the crisis cabinet created to address solutions to the collapse of a building in Badalona that cost the life to three people, that the administrations will sign an agreement in the coming days. In addition to the building that suffered a collapse in its structure, there are three other properties evacuated with about 80 affected families who have no date to return to their homes.
Capella has explained that the Generalitat will contribute “more than half” of the resources to prepare a report on the situation of the buildings in the block of Canigó, Llefià and Ausiàs March streets, with the involvement of the schools of architects, technical architects and engineers
The report will be “an exact x-ray” of the causes of the cracks in the evacuated buildings and the detection of problems in the rest of the development, except in the collapsed building, in which there is an open judicial investigation.
The councilor added that a housing solution will be sought for the residents of block 9, the collapsed one, for the time they are evicted, and that for the rest they will wait to see what the technicians say based on the reviews. In any case, the mayor of Badalona has guaranteed that “no one will be left on the street.”
Albiol explained that the company hired by the City Council has already inspected at least seven affected buildings. For his part, Balmón highlighted that the three administrations are “joining efforts” to serve neighbors who are in a “vulnerable situation.”
Capella and Albiol then went to Canigó Street, where some neighbors conveyed their complaints about the attitude of the City Council and, above all, the Generalitat.
