social emergency

Mothers saved from ending up on the streets: "Having an apartment gives you the strength to start over."

Society | 02/06/2025

Verónica López, Rumana Mohammed, and Enilda Pérez speaking with the two social workers from the San Juan de Dios Social Services Foundation.

Homelessness is on the rise in Badalona, where there is no municipal shelter.

Society | 08/05/2025

A tent pitched under a porch on a street in Badalona, with the count volunteers in the background.

One thousand euros per person per month: the bill Barcelona pays for housing 3,000 vulnerable people in pensions.

Society | 14/04/2025

Shirley Medina lives in a hostel in Gavà with her five children and is at risk of being homeless tomorrow.

His name was Juan and he was 49 years old: a habitual homeless person in the Gràcia neighborhood dies.

Society | 20/03/2025

In the space where Juan used to sleep, only a piece of cardboard, his blankets, and a candle remain.

Poverty is falling in Catalonia, but it is increasing among children

Society | 13/02/2025

Unicef proposes aid per child to reduce child poverty

A mother with four children, about to become homeless: "I don't want my children to live in the open"

Society | 12/02/2025

Shirley Medina in her room at the Gavà hostel where she lives with four children.

Police evict squatters from warehouse in Badalona: "We don't know where to go now"

Society | 13/01/2022

A young man helps a colleague of his to remove his things with a cart, without waiting for the arrival of the judicial procession of Badalona

Couple suffocate to death heating the shanty they lived in in Montcada i Reixac

Society | 10/01/2022

En Muner and Jessica heated a new infrahabitatge built a few meters from the bar they occupied until now in a settlement of Montcada and Reixac

"With two daughters you have to look for a safe place to live"

Society | 17/12/2021

Caritas food distribution, in the center of Barcelona, in an image from 2020

"I only ask for a flat I can afford"

Society | 20/09/2021

Maribel Tejeda to her flat, in the Hostafrancs neighbourhood of Barcelona, this week.

Eight out of ten under 30 live with their parents

Society | 26/06/2021

The pandemic has worsened access to housing and the labour market for young people.

Tension in an eviction in Poble-sec, the first of Pere Aragonès's presidency

Society | 25/05/2021

An activist protests in front of a riot police unit during the second attempt to evict her from the Entonces block, which has been carried out

Ciutat Meridiana, where Barcelona loses its name

Society | 14/03/2021

Teenagers checking their mobile phones in a passage in the upper part of Ciutat Meridiana. Pere Tordera