In the coming weeks, Barcelona will put a patch on the serious deficit in affordable housing that the city suffers from. The public park is expanded with the upcoming completion of the works and the delivery of keys to up to ten new developments totaling 746 apartments promoted by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge i Rehabilitació de Barcelona (IMHAB).
These are already finished promotions that began to be delivered last November and will finish coming into service during the first four months of 2024. Eight out of every ten of these apartments, a total of 585, are for social and affordable rental, while The rest are awarded under the surface right regime.
Of those intended for rent, there is also a package of more than 230 apartments with specific services for seniors. All apartments will be awarded to families registered in the register of Applicants for Officially Protected Housing.
This package of promotions has required a total investment of more than 111 million euros that has been distributed among five districts of Barcelona, ??especially affecting areas that are undergoing great urban transformation, such as the case of the Marina del Prat neighborhood. Vermell, in Sants-Montjuïc, or the old cheap houses of Bon Pastor and the old Sant Andreu barracks. With these new developments, Barcelona’s public housing stock exceeds 12,300 units.
The mayor of Barcelona, ??Jaume Collboni, today visited the Cal Cisó development, located in the Marina del Prat Vermell neighborhood and consisting of 108 rental homes. It is the last promotion completed this year.
Collboni, accompanied by the first deputy mayor, Laia Bonet, and the Housing Commissioner, Jona Ramon Riera, assured during the visit that “housing is the number one priority of this municipal government because it is the fundamental right that most highlights the inequalities of Barcelona, ??a situation that we face in every possible way.” In this sense, the mayor has indicated that the City Council will promote two lines of action to alleviate the affordable housing deficit that exists in the city. On the one hand, “generate and mobilize all the available land, the raw material to produce more affordable housing” and, at the same time, “seek agreements with all actors, public and private.”
The new promotions are located in five Barcelona districts. In Sants-Montjuïc (180 homes), the three-block building on Calle Cal Cisó and a building of unique architecture (triangular floor plan with an acute angle and red facade) on Calle Ulldecona. In Horta-Guinardó, a 105-flat development on Avenida de Estatut de Catalunya whose construction and management has been delegated to the Fem Ciutat cooperative is entering the public housing park.
In Nou Barris, the public housing stock is increasing with two developments that add up to a hundred flats, specifically on Escolapi Càncer Avenue in the Torre Baró neighborhood and on Calle Palamós.
Sant Andreu concentrates four promotions. The first is a building planned as part of the remodeling of the old Cheap Houses neighborhood of Bon Pastior, the first in this area that is not intended for the relocation of urban planning victims but rather for public housing applicants. There is also a double promotion in the Porta Trinitat area, in the Trinitat Vella, and one that will be allocated entirely to older people in the old Sant Andreu barracks.
Finally, in Sant Martí, the tenth promotion is located, at one of the intersections of the Poblenou super block, between Ciutat de Granada and Almogàvers streets.
