A victory for the residents in the first round of the battle for the apartment building at 14 Sant Agustí Street in Barcelona. The pressure from the crowd that gathered in front of the building this Wednesday prevented the foreign fund that owns it, New Amsterdam Developers (NAD), from evicting Txema Escorsa, the first resident of the building with a court order to leave. A partial victory – the eviction has been rescheduled for April 15 – which the Tenants' Union has used as further leverage to pressure the owners into negotiations.

A Barcelona court will have the final say on the eviction of a tenant in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona. The investment fund that owns the apartment has taken the case to court to force the eviction with the aim of converting the property into a colivingThis is number 14 on Sant Agustí street, where there are already four apartments that are colivingsSeveral files and fines have long since confirmed that The work to divide the apartments had been done illegally.

As with mobile phones, sometimes we have to state the obvious: phones, besides being used to watch movies and series or to take photos, are also used for talking. Well, the time has come to do the same with housing, when it seems we've lost sight of its function. We mustn't forget that, in addition to being a commodity, as used by those seeking very high returns in the shortest possible time, it is also a right that, in one way or another, the authorities must monitor and protect. The Spanish Constitution enshrines this in Article 47: "All Spaniards have the right to enjoy decent and adequate housing. The public authorities must promote the necessary conditions and establish the relevant regulations to make this right effective, and must regulate land use in accordance with the general interest to prevent speculation."