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Homelessness spreads to the periphery

Marta Rodríguez Carrera

15-06-2026

A settlement of shacks and tents survives amidst buildings on a plot of land in the Sant Andreu district, in Barcelona.

Working and living on the street, the new normal

Marta Rodríguez Carrera

13-06-2026

Manuel Heredia speaking with the Red Cross volunteers who attend him on the street where he lives.

To live poorly in a farmhouse without walls, doors, or windows: "We are trapped"

Aniol Costa-Pau

13-06-2026

The farmhouse between Girona and Salt where about twenty African youths live in very precarious conditions.

The forgotten ones of the shacks of Montcada i Reixac: "Everything remains the same"

Albert Diumenjó SegalàandMarta Rodríguez Carrera

13-06-2026

The shanty settlement located in a garden area near the Besòs river, in Montcada i Reixac, where a couple died due to smoke inhalation.

Badalona installs concrete blocks where the evicted from B9 were sheltering

ARA

01-04-2026

The concrete blocks that the Barcelona City Council has placed to block access to the point where the settlement was.

The most invisible form of homelessness: from sleeping in stairwells to riding buses around in circles

Marta Rodríguez Carrera

27-02-2026

The corner of the staircase where homeless people sleep in a building in Sants, Barcelona.

The Generalitat shifts its attention from the evicted residents of B9 to Albiol

ARA

02-01-2026

Those affected by the eviction of B9 have been sleeping in tents on the street for 15 days, currently under the C-31 road bridge enduring cold and heavy rain.