Podcast | The last neighbor: speculation and creative solutions

The Barcelona City Council, together with the Hàbitat 3 Social Housing Management Foundation, has just announced the purchase of Casa Orsola, a modernist building of homes in the Eixample neighborhood. This neighborhood is the last exponent of the gentrification suffered by Barcelona, ​​where, as in many other cities, the large investment funds raffle the measures of the administrations to curb real estate speculation. This voracity ends up affecting neighbors who, a priori, are not in vulnerability and yet they are expelled from the houses where they lead a lifetime and could pay without problems.

With Pau Rodríguez, journalist of eldiaria.es in Catalunya, we visited Xavier, the last tenant of one of these buildings in the Eixample neighborhood acquired by an investment fund, which has transformed the rest of homes into luxury floors for sale to a Type of owner that almost never is. And we analyze this last operation of the Barcelona City Council that has not been exempt from controversy and some contradiction.

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