The government will lose €13 million in fines to large landowners for not offering social housing.
In October, the Constitutional Court annulled the article that included this obligation due to "invasion of powers."
BarcelonaThe Generalitat will not collect 13 of the 17.6 million euros in fines it had issued to large holders in application of a decree of March 2022, known as the anti-eviction law, according to the announcement. The Newspaper. This rule, which the Constitutional Court (TC) partially cancelled in October 2024 and also in January of this year, reinstated in one of its articles the obligation for large landowners to offer social rental contracts to vulnerable families before evicting them, as the court had previously overturned it.
In application of this rule, from 2020 until the court rulings, in October 2024 and February 2025, the Generalitat (Catalan government) has received 3,593 complaints and carried out 1,900 actions, resulting in a total of 717 sanctions of €1 for not offering social rentals. The €13 million it will stop receiving come from 512 sanctioning proceedings that are about to be closed due to the court rulings and which are cases of people without a current rental contract or mortgage, sources from the Generalitat confirmed to ARA.
To date, the Generalitat (Catalan Government), through the Catalan Consumer Agency, has collected €1.33 million from these fines, of which €434,875 must be repaid, corresponding to cases affected by the court's rulings. For the remaining cases not directly affected by the rulings, the Generalitat is studying how to continue processing them.
The Constitutional Court fell in 2021 this obligation after annulling some articles of a decree law that The Government approved in December 2019, and which Parliament ratified in February 2020. The court ruling came after an appeal by the PP, which had previously taken him before the Council of Statutory Guarantees (CGE), and this body had ruled that some points were "unconstitutional." Years later, in February 2022, Parliament approved the anti-eviction law again, with the same obligation for large holders, which It was visited by the Spanish government in December of that year.
