The homes are located at Baixada de Can Mateu, 14, in Horta-Guinardó, and are the result of the one-off amendment to the General Metropolitan Plan (PGM) in the Lobregós – Can Mateu area, obliging housing promotors to reserve 30% of built surface space for protected housing.
Families who go to live in the flats will pay monthly social rents of between 401 and 831 euros, according to the floor space of the home, which along with communal costs must not exceed 40% of the family’s income.
The block is part of a set of three buildings, two of them with housing for the open market and one with protected homes, with a total of 27 flats in all. The building with 15 protected homes is on the corner between C/ Granollers and Baixada de Can Mateu. It has five floors with eleven two-bedroom homes, two one-bedroom homes, one three-bedroom home and a four-bedroom home.
The homes have been allocated as follows: four flats for people under the age of 35, a further four for people from the local vicinity, one for single-parent families, one for large families and an adapted home for people with reduced mobility. The other flats have also been allocated to applicants on the Barcelona register of officially protected homes.
The three buildings have been built by the promotor Vertix, which invested more than 4.1 million euros in the protected housing block.