The Government puts out to tender the first small plots of land to build 330 homes
It is necessary that the plot has at least one candidate for it to go out for tender
BarcelonaThe Generalitat's flagship housing plan —and arguably one of the most significant of the legislature— is to add 50,000 protected homes to the public stock by 2030. Salvador Illa's strategy involves identifying plots of land ready for construction and then offering them to municipalities and developers. This Wednesday, the Government has put out to tender 16 of the 59 plots with capacity for fewer than 20 homes each that the executive has included in its plan. As ARA has learned, this week it will release 8 more of the same type, bringing the total to 24 plots.
To allocate them, the Government has opted to establish different rules of play than for the rest of the plots, because these are smaller and therefore, it considers they have particularities that need to be addressed, with the aim of finding suitable developers. While for larger plots, the Generalitat puts out to tender batches of several plots, for the smaller ones, it puts them out individually.
So far, the 16 already published have the capacity to build up to 330 homes in total, and are located in seven municipalities: Barcelona, El Vendrell, La Canonja, Móra la Nova, Olèrdola, Súria, and Vielha i Mijaran. The eight plots that the executive plans to put out to tender this week will accommodate up to 114 more homes.
Individual tenders
All the plots that will go out to tender this week have at least one candidate for award. The Generalitat opened a form for the 59 plots with the aim that interested parties could submit their application. When a plot has at least one application, the Generalitat puts it out to tender for a period of one month. Sources from the Ministry of Territory have defended to ARA that it is an "innovative" action, motivated by the severe housing crisis that the country is experiencing.
It is also new that groups of neighbors —that is to say, that the bidders themselves will use them— and housing cooperatives, in addition to private developers, can be awardees of the plots.