The day after the fire that caused two minor injuries, the Guardia Urbana deployed a special operation on Wednesday morning to evacuate the shantytown settlements located under the Calatrava bridge In Barcelona, ​​next to the Sagrera construction site. The settlement is located on the corner of Bac de Roda and Huelva streets. Several officers—who are coordinating the operation—have been deployed to the scene, along with vans from the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police), fire trucks from the Barcelona Fire Department, personnel from the Social Emergency and Urgent Care Center (CUESB), and cleaning services from the Barcelona City Council. Around fifty people live in squalid conditions in this area, according to data from the Sant Andreu housing union. Municipal sources confirmed on Tuesday that there are also minors among these families. The operation took place a day after the fire and was prompted, as is often the case, by a Fire Department report concluding that there is a "very serious risk" to the people living there and that action must be taken "urgently."

If the situation doesn't change, Nadira's family [a fictitious name, like the rest of the witnesses] will soon have spent a year in the Sant Màrius private shelter, referred by social services. Nadira will find the strength to leave him, to make him her ex. in tourist establishments, some three thousand vulnerable people Like them, 41% are single-parent families, with 92% of them being women as the adult representatives.

Only 15 years have passed since the financial and real estate crisis, which profoundly affected the Spanish middle and working classes and left significant consequences worth remembering. There are so-called toxic assets: real estate and land that have lost economic value, and where the toxicity isn't the assets (houses and land) but the AAA-rated valuations.

The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption, and the 2030 Agenda has opened a new disciplinary procedure against a national real estate agency for abusive practices against tenants. Within the investigation into the real estate sector, this is the second time that Consum has filed a case against a company for indications of possible illegal commission charges and forcing tenants to hire unsolicited services.

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.