{"id":21576,"date":"2025-10-13T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=21576"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:57:54","slug":"the-future-of-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/noticias\/el-futuro-de-la-vivienda","title":{"rendered":"The future of housing: reflections from the Palau Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"

The future of housing in Catalonia: reflections from the Palau Robert<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Our director, Jos\u00e9 Luis Echeverr\u00eda, has attended the meeting organised by elDiario.es<\/em> at the Palau Robert to analyse the direction of housing policies in Catalonia and Barcelona.<\/h2>\n\n\n
13 October 2025 by Claudia Romero<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Access to housing has established itself as the main social and economic emergency in our cities, a complex challenge that demands rigorous analysis and, above all, the cooperation of all the actors involved. With the aim of breaking down this reality, last Monday, 6 October, the conference was held at the Palau Robert in Barcelona \u201cThe right to housing: challenges and solutions\u201d<\/strong>, a key event organised by elDiario.es<\/em> which brought together top political authorities, experts and social groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At Monapart, true to our commitment to keeping a close eye on everything happening in the real estate sector and understanding where the housing market is heading, we attended to cover the event led by our director, Jos\u00e9 Luis Echeverr\u00eda<\/a>. The official event poster already anticipated the significance of the presentations, which were inaugurated by the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, and closed by the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Build, rehabilitate and regulate: the institutional keys<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the highlights of the morning was the speech by the Minister for Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition, S\u00edlvia Paneque, who provided hopeful figures by announcing that the Generalitat will close the year with a record number of 1,800 flats acquired for social housing purposes<\/a>. Meanwhile, Mayor Jaume Collboni strongly defended his council's controversial yet resolute measure to ban tourist apartments in the Catalan capital, insisting on the priority need to promote the construction of new affordable housing to ease the pressure on the metropolitan market.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The closing ceremony was led by the President of the Government, Salvador Illa, who made an appeal to recover \u00abconfidence in institutions\u00bb. Illa acknowledged that the housing problem \u00abis not something that is going to be solved in a year\u00bb, but promised \u00abambition, courage and persistence\u00bb on the part of his Executive. Under his premise of \u00abbuilding and building in an agile manner\u00bb, the leader opted for a triple approach: accelerating construction, boosting community regeneration (through initiatives such as the Neighbourhoods Act) and intervening surgically in the market to \u00abprioritise housing as a right and not as a business\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00abThe right to housing is no longer just a theoretical debate, but the central axis around which the urban planning and real estate sector of the next decade will be designed.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Monapart's Gaze<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the major political headlines, the day served to examine avenues for public-private collaboration and give a voice to the cooperative and social sector, which deals daily with the housing emergency that particularly affects young people and vulnerable families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Jos\u00e9 Luis, attendance at this forum confirms a paradigm shift: the right to housing is no longer just a theoretical debate, but the central axis around which the urban planning and real estate sector of the next decade will be designed. <\/strong>At Monapart, we will continue to champion the belief that the path to the homes of the future must unequivocally embrace sustainability, social sensitivity and the creation of decent, habitable homes for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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