To coordinate housing policy with social services to promptly cover emergency situations and benefit from a system of special assistance grants while the pool of public housing is expanded over the next 10 years

The issue of housing must be tackled from a comprehensive standpoint (covering town planning, social, legal, financial and environmental aspects) ensuring affordable housing is made available to those who need it the most as quickly as possible. In order to be in a position to deliver these targets, the Catalan Housing Agency must be assigned greater resources, with a specific focus on dealing with the emergency with capacity and means to deliver an immediate, effective response, and with its own stock to deal with vulnerable cases. While the public housing stock is expanded over the next 10 years, there will be a requirement to provide public grants for vulnerable groups and families to be able to pay for housing. Accordingly, the regulation on rental prices will need to be subject to continued application while the pools of rental housing held by the public administration will need to be promoted, including apartments from the private stock in exchange for guarantees for landlords who make their apartments available for the pool of social rental, while implementing the second-chance scheme in the event of non-payment of mortgages and rental. Lastly, an impact plan is necessary in order to lift all individuals recorded on the emergency helpdesk out of deprivation – an estimated 3,000 people – and who are currently in hotels and hostels, meaning they are housed at a higher cost than they would be if definitive homes were built.