Barcelona City Council under Mayor Jaume Collboni has supplied fewer flats to Barcelona’s Social Emergency Board since 2023 than the Catalan Housing Agency, according to housing data reported by Tot Barcelona. For residents facing a housing emergency or residential exclusion, the board is a route through which homes supplied by public institutions can be allocated.
The reported figures mark a reversal from the balance described in a 2023 Barcelona municipal housing-policy presentation, which said the City Council had historically provided the larger share of homes to the board.
Earlier municipal figures showed City Council supplied most homes
The presentation by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge i Rehabilitació de Barcelona, the City Council’s housing and refurbishment institute, described the Social Emergency Board as part of the response to housing emergencies and residential exclusion.
“The City of Barcelona has provided 78% of the housing units and the Generalitat 22%.”
The newer data reported by Tot Barcelona indicates that, from 2023, the Catalan Housing Agency has supplied more homes to the board than the City Council. The supplied material does not give a total number of homes allocated through the board since that change.
City and Generalitat also agreed a separate building programme
The change in emergency-housing contributions comes alongside a separate agreement on new protected housing. Under the [Barcelona City Council agreement with the Catalan Government](https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/alcalde/en/noticias/collaboration-agreement-with-the-catalan-government-to-build-1700-social-homes-1359542), the council offered 27 municipally owned plots to the Catalan Land Institute, INCASÒL.
INCASÒL is due to invest €221 million to build at least 1,700 officially protected homes, according to the council announcement. The agreement concerns new construction and the supplied information does not state how many of those homes, if any, will be made available through the Social Emergency Board.
Barcelona’s municipal housing-policy presentation lists legal advice and mediation through the city’s Housing Offices, as well as an anti-eviction service, among the measures intended to prevent and address housing emergencies.
Primary sources: ajuntament.barcelona.cat, Barcelona City Council, Ramon. Reported by Source Text Link, housingireland.ie, Pau Rodríguez, Pol Valero, Oriol Solé Altimira, Gerard Pruna, Judit Castaño, larazon.es, socialhousingfestival.eu, Tot Barcelona.
