First step to create sixty publicly owned homes in Vila de Gràcia

The first administrative step has been approved to amend the urban plan for Rambla de Prat and protect the local community in Vila de Gràcia, one of the neighbourhoods worst affected by property speculation. The project should create sixty publicly owned homes and preserve fifteen buildings, responding to a long-standing demand from local residents.

11/06/2020 18:03 h

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The plan, drafted in the 1970s to extend Rambla de Prat, will adapt mobility in the area to the current context and promote public housing to tackle the problem of local people being driven from their homes.

More housing

The measure allows for the creation of thirty flats at affordable prices, located in Plaça d’Anna Frank, Carrer de l’Àngel and Carrer de Jaén.

A plot will also be reserved for a public facility at Carrer de Jaén, 18-20, with the option of building 35 homes with services there. This category of affordable flats is aimed at vulnerable groups such as the elderly, people with functional diversity or young people.

Local people stay

The proposal means that, with the Rambla de Prat not being extended in the end, 15 buildings with a total of 91 homes which would have been affected by the modification are now safe and their residents can stay on.

The modification to the urban plan has been approved by the Government Commission and will be debated by the Commission for Ecology, Urban Planning, Infrastructures and Mobility to go through the municipal administrative process.

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