11% of homes are empty in Barcelona, according to the Institute of Statistics of Catalonia. A total of 88,000 apartments.
It is the result of the housing bubble and foreclosures, which have become "the bubble of the rent and evictions for non-payment of rents and precarious work."
Catalonia has registered more than 110,000 foreclosures since 2008. According to the General Council of the Judiciary (GCJ) every day to evict 43 families (between 8 and 10 in Barcelona). More than two thirds of these are evicted 43 tenants. That is, evictions for non-payment of rent have gone in front of foreclosures. The picture is completed by two things are apparent.
Those reasons are, in order, unemployment rising fees and matched problems in divorces or separations. 10% of families have no income, even though more than half of the cases involve homes consist of three or more members. 7% enter between 400 and 800 euros per month. The problem is compounded by reduïdíssim market rental apartments in Barcelona compared to other cities, such as Berlin.
To make matters worse, since 2013 rental prices have risen 7.8% in Catalonia, according to the Incasòl, a public body that promotes the construction of housing. 48% of mortgages were analyzed hired by banks bailed out with public funds. Nou Barris and Sant Martí, the report adds, accumulate "55% of the mortgaged homes in the city." The rule is: more homes mortgaged less income per capita.
The ultimate solution, however, involves broadening the social public park rental. Altruism is not far from charity, but of strict legality. Article 73 of Law 18/2007 provided that before the 2027 Barcelona had to allocate 15% of their social housing policies. This means that in the next 11 years the City Council has to mobilize at least 120,000 apartments to reach the figure.
But compliance or not this goal is not solely a matter of law.