The Martínez Mejía family has been denied a mortgage four times, despite being backed by the salaries of all four members, and they have to continue living in a rented apartment in La Torrassa —a neighborhood in L'Hospitalet where 54% of residents were born abroad— that is falling apart. The apartment is so small that one of the sons, in his twenties, has to sleep in the same room as his parents. For the Khans, the father's good salary does not open doors to the homes they like and could afford. “Even with money, I can't live where I want,” complains Atusa Khan. The couple and their two young daughters are subletting in the El Raval neighborhood of Barcelona – with 64% of residents born abroad.

In the exhibition Housing the Majorities, Barcelona 1860-2010, curated by Manel Guàrdia and Maribel Roselló, from the Barcelona Housing Museum, the MUHBA's headquarters in the old low-cost housing of Bon Pastor, a poster from the 60s can be seen from a construction company showing multiple residential developments on a map of Barcelona. The poster is titled “Pisos pisos pisos pisos” (Flats flats flats flats) and largely hints at how the response to the problem of access to housing and shantytowns was given from the late 1950s through the Social Urgency Plan of Barcelona of 1958. This plan, focused on the maximum production of "flats" possible in the cheapest way (through the so-called

A sociologist, social educator, and professor of sociology of education at the University of Vic (UVic), Jordi Collet doesn't understand diversity as anything other than normal, and therefore, he doesn't understand why it's experienced internally as a problem. He advocates a change of perspective and a rethinking of schools to utilize resources differently than previously. He explained this in a lecture at the Escola Projecte, as part of the presentation of the first Hermini Tudela Foundation awards, which specifically seek best practices in inclusion.

Only five of the 16 schools in Catalonia that used to separate students by sex will remain. The Institució Familiar d'Educació group, which manages ten schools in Catalonia, has announced that its secondary school groups will go co-ed as of next year. The measure, advanced by Diari de Girona, affects the centers of La Farga in Sant Cugat del Vallès (until now only for boys), La Vall (until now only for girls), Les Alzines (for girls) and Bell-lloc del Pla (for boys) in Girona and Institució Tarragona (formed by schools Aura, for girls, and Turó, for boys), and adds to what had already been done by schools in Igualada (Montclar and Mistral) and Lleida (Terraferma and Arabell). In total, there will remain five schools in Catalonia that will separate boys and girls, and they are the ones most closely linked to Opus Dei: Xaloc and Pineda, in L'Hospitalet; Viaró, in Sant Cugat; Camp Joliu, in L'Arboç, and Canigó, in Barcelona