Her legs still tremble when she recounts how she went from being homeless to owning her own apartment. "We were saved by the bell, yes," Anna Pujol (a pseudonym) explains, describing how, after years of being threatened with eviction, pressured to leave quietly, and desperate attempts to stay, she finally succeeded last Wednesday, just 48 hours before the deadline for the eviction notice. Two days earlier, she reached an agreement with the investment fund and signed the preliminary sales agreement to buy the apartment where she and her mother had been renting for twenty years. The process has been very complicated and, emotionally, has been a journey through depression, anxiety, and fear for the mother, who has a disability, and for the daughter, a 24-year-old master's student who just started her first job, which facilitated her obtaining the mortgage.

Pope Leo XIV visited the Badalona neighborhood of Sant Roc, one of the poorest in Catalonia, twice. It was in 2016, and the AugustinianRobert Prevost He ended up in the city, invited as prior of the order by the parish priest of the small church in the neighborhood, where he took the opportunity to learn firsthand about the work of the historic Ateneo de Sant Roc, whose headquarters are in premises attached to the parish.