Turning to the idea of public housing, we read in the ARA that the Trilla report does not propose that it be stopped, but that "different developers can group the public housing that corresponds to them in the same block, in the same neighborhood, but not within the free market promotions that they do." The Association of Developers of Catalonia asked, recently, that "in mixed housing there are entrances for the poor and entrances for the rich." I always remember that one day, visiting a friend with money, the doorman let me and my daughter in through the service entrance. It made us laugh a lot, and we pretended that I was the seamstress. My grandfather explained to me that the poor, at school (he was one), had to stand in a separate line and the priests called them like this: "The soup ones!" Hence the expression "the silly soup".
The housing problem is not the rich and the poor. They are the vast majority of – let's say – middle class. Young people or families with two salaries that don't make it. They are not poor. They are people who between rent or mortgage, extracurricular activities, food, transport and telephone can't afford it. Some have left the metropolis to find better prices and a more beautiful life (dodging the savage mortgages). They have bought an electric car (where they live, public transport is a pipe dream) to have a free blue zone in Barcelona while they study or work. Now, the Barcelona City Council has changed the rule. They are eating the plug of the electric car with potatoes (a kilometre zero, of course). I'm sorry. I don't think any rich person would buy a building where there are poor people, with a separate door or not. Starting with the politicians who have made these laws. If they are going to make them, it would be better to buy a chalet with a little house for farmers.
