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

Housing is an issue that has gained prominence among citizens' concerns in recent years. Increasingly high prices due to a supply that doesn't keep up with demand and a shrinking and extremely expensive rental market shape the current landscape. And it has fueled discontent among an increasing number of citizens, especially younger ones. Governments, which for many years have left the functioning of the housing market in the hands of the free market, are now rushing to solve a problem that takes time: a housing stock isn't built overnight. The trend so far has led us to levels of public and/or subsidized housing that place us at the bottom of the European list.

The Catalan Institute of Finance (ICF), the Catalan government's public bank, will increase its workforce by 29 to meet its plan to allocate 600 million euros annually to finance social housing. The new feature is that the institution will be able to serve individuals for the first time. Specifically, young people up to 35 years old who request a 20% down payment on their first home, within the framework of the so-called emancipation fund, endowed with 100 million euros annually. The ICF currently has 108 professionals.