Seventeen families living in Barcelona have, since February 7, a home where they can live with dignity in the city. Six of them have received the keys to their apartment from the hands of the Councilor for Housing and Renovation of the Barcelona City Council, Lucía Martín, who has welcomed them and congratulated them on this good news. The rest, a total of eleven, already received them in mid-January.
The homes awarded to the families correspond to the Emergency Table that takes place monthly and come from the Social Rental Fund that the Barcelona Housing Consortium allocates to people with economic difficulties and at risk of residential exclusion.
To apply for this housing, all the families have followed the stipulated procedure, which involves, first of all, making an appointment at the Barcelona Housing Office to request an assessment and a report on their particular case. From this moment on, the Emergency Board proceeds to the evaluation and analysis of the files received from the Offices to allocate the housing in question. You can consult all the adjudications in this link.
The homes of the Social Rental Fund are intended for cohabitation units at risk of residential exclusion, such as being in the process of eviction due to rental debt, foreclosure, or surrender of the property as payment for a mortgage debt, or the property in question there are minors, elderly people or those living in a situation of neglect, in precarious hygienic, sanitary and safety conditions.
If there are not enough apartments available to respond to the files positively assessed by the Table, housing will be allocated as they are incorporated into the Social Rental Fund until the Emergency Table is held the following month. All the information and the rules and regulations of the Emergency Committee can be consulted on the website of the Barcelona Housing Consortium.