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4w ago

Collboni Negotiates With Junts to Ease Barcelona’s 30% Affordable Housing Rule

By increasing the minimum size for covered rehabilitations to 1,500 m², the plan has drawn criticism that it will strip protection from thousands of buildings.

Uno de los edificios en los que se construyó bajo la norma del 30% a reserva de vivienda asequible en Barcelona.
La parcela de Diagonal con Selva de Mar, Pujades y Provençals, en Barcelona, donde se planifica una promoción de vivienda pública.
La primera teniente de alcalde, Laia Bonet (PSC), y el líder de Junts en Barcelona, Jordi Martí, en una imagen de archivo.
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Overview

  • The PSC-led city government is conducting intensive talks with Junts to secure the 11 votes needed to advance its revision of the 30% rule.
  • The draft reform would exempt major rehabilitations under 1,500 m² from the 30% protected housing requirement and permit developers to fulfill their quotas by buying existing vacant flats in the same neighborhood.
  • Opponents including Barcelona en Comú and the Sindicat de Llogateres argue the change would strip around 4,000 buildings of protection and serve construction lobby interests over social housing needs.
  • Junts has conditioned its support on additional measures such as a 4% cut to the property tax (IBI), the transfer of 823 SAREB-owned assets, and expanded housing subsidies.
  • After choosing not to present the proposal in Thursday’s government commission, officials must now decide whether to push the Urbanism vote to July or convene an extraordinary session before summer recess.