First housing plan of the Spanish government within the framework of the new housing law. This Tuesday, the Council of Ministers presented the pillars of its policy to try to solve citizens' main problem, according to the CIS, but with the difficulty that a significant part of the competencies is in the hands of the autonomous communities. The minister in charge, Isabel Rodríguez, has assured that the "public housing stock is protected" to prevent the investment of state funds in the construction and habilitation of buildings from ending up in private hands. "Until now, the role of the general administration of the State was that of a paying agent," said Rodríguez, whereas now its intention is to intervene in the autonomous communities to ensure citizens' "rights".

Regulatory pressure is beginning to be felt in the holiday rental market. Last year, with the entry into force of the state registry, this pressure began to increase. in order to operate legally Nearly 6,000 tourist apartments were lost in Catalonia through digital platforms, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). This represents an 11.3% decrease compared to 2014. The decline recorded last year leaves the total number of tourist apartments in Catalonia at 46,915. This is the lowest supply of tourist apartments recorded by the INE since 2020, when it began counting them. This decrease means that one in four apartments has disappeared since then, when there were approximately 63,200 apartments designated for tourist rentals or tourist accommodation, almost 26% fewer apartments. This decline has coincided with other control measures implemented by the Catalan Government, as well as measures to increase the stock of residential rental housing. The most pronounced drop was recorded in the province of Barcelona. Data collected by the INE (National Institute of Statistics) shows that nearly 40% of tourist apartments operating in 2020 have closed. The number has fallen from almost 26,000 to just over 15,700. In the last year alone, 2,416 apartments have disappeared, representing 13% of the number that existed in 2024. As the statistics institute shows, there are currently more tourist apartments in Girona (17,754) than in Barcelona (15,741). With these figures, Catalonia has a proportion of tourist apartments of 1.2% of the total number of registered dwellings, a proportion that stands at 0.61% in the city of Barcelona.