The secretary of the 'Civil Society Forum for the reconstruction of the Balearic Islands', David Abril, presented this Tuesday in the Congress of Deputies a document with more than one hundred measures to face the housing access crisis in the Balearic archipelago, among which includes expanding the public housing stock by 10% by 2040, which would imply building about 2,600 houses annually.

The Spanish government's state housing plan has become an instrument of pressure on the communities governed by the PP that refuse to apply the state Housing Law. The PSOE opts for greater interventionism in the housing market and has linked the aid package to measures to combat the soaring prices of rent and purchase of flats. The funds are distributed according to the actions of each territory: the Balearic Islands will receive 168 million from the package of 7,000 million euros recently approved by the Council of Ministers. The Minister of Housing, José Luis Mateo, has accused the Spanish government of wanting to "meddle" in regional competences, as it conditions the reception of funds on the application of policies such as the limit on rental prices. The rejection of the PP leaders to the design of these aids is unanimous, although, for now, they have not ruled out benefiting from them.

The operation to evict the Sa Joveria settlement, in Ibiza, began this Tuesday with a police and technical operation that includes the dismantling and cleaning of the area. However, institutional response in terms of housing is limited: the council has set up temporary spaces for seven family units and seven adults without dependents, a figure insufficient for the more than one hundred people who resided there. more than one hundred people who resided there.

The Joveria settlement has been completely evacuated this Tuesday, although an operation is removing a "multitude" of gas cylinders or batteries, as well as other dangerous elements, found on the site. Once removed, machines will enter to clean the plot. Even so, the institutional response in terms of accommodation is limited: the City Council has provided temporary spaces for seven family units and seven adults without dependents, a figure insufficient for the more than one hundred people who resided in the place.

Bunyola takes a step forward in public housing. The Balearic Housing Institute has put out to tender the drafting of the project for the construction of ten public protection homes in the municipality, an action that aims to expand the public stock and facilitate access to decent housing, especially for young people and families.

“It is not a cry of despair, we have time, but we cannot find an apartment to rent in Porreres and we do not want to have to move to another town”. The housing crisis in Mallorca is reaching Pla little by little and it has a face and eyes, and in Porreres there is an example. A single-parent family from Porreres, made up of a mother and daughter, has turned what should have been a conventional advertisement looking for a rental apartment into an original protest publication through which they have wanted to make visible the reality of many families and also young people who find themselves with an increasingly inaccessible real estate market throughout Mallorca, and Pla is no exception.

These are times of emergency, when finding housing that we can afford is more difficult than ever, almost impossible. It's not just about having a roof over our heads to sleep under: housing has a dimension that goes much further, that is part of people's emotional experiences. There are houses that are homes, places of happiness, welcome, and refuge. Others are simply passing places, with a limited imprint on the personal stories of those who have spent time within those four walls. This is precisely what the project Homes explores, by the collective La forma dels somnis (formed by people from the Degree in Catalan Language and Literature at the UIB, the Mental Health area of the Hospital Comarcal d’Inca, and the association La Nostra Veu).

These are times of emergency, when finding housing that we can afford is more difficult than ever, almost impossible. It's not just about having a roof over our heads to sleep under: housing has a dimension that goes much further, that is part of people's emotional experiences. There are houses that are homes, places of happiness, welcome, and refuge. Others are simply passing places, with a limited imprint on the personal stories of those who have spent time within those four walls. This is precisely what the project Homes explores, by the collective La forma dels somnis (formed by people from the Degree in Catalan Language and Literature at the UIB, the Mental Health area of the Hospital Comarcal d’Inca, and the association La Nostra Veu).

The Mallorca Tenants' Union is born with the will to “canalyze social discontent into a tool for legal and political struggle”. As the organization has reported in a statement, the objective is to articulate a collective and organized response to the escalating rental prices and precariousness affecting thousands of people on the island.

The upcoming April 21st falls on a Tuesday; a normal working day for the inhabitants of Eivissa, a day marked in red in the City Council offices, a critical day for the inhabitants of the irregular settlement of La Joveria. The camp is located between the fairgrounds and the first ring road of Eivissa, just a 20-minute walk from the city center. In recent weeks, the Police have visited all the tents in the settlement and have delivered the notice to the inhabitants, one by one: on the 21st, at 10 in the morning, “the entry and dismantling of the settlement is planned, prior to the eviction of its occupants”. The mayor of Eivissa, the popular Rafa Triguero, has spoken forcefully about ‘illegal’ settlements in recent weeks; the word ‘firmness’ has been heard on several occasions.

Renting has become synonymous with impoverishment and constant insecurity. Exorbitant housing prices are increasingly out of reach for workers' economic capacity. CSIC researcher and Doctor of Sociology Javier Gil analyzes the consequences of this trend, which threatens the social model, in his latest book, Tenant Generation (Capitán Swing, 2026).

The entire island of Mallorca will end up being a large city. I first heard it about thirty years ago, and I couldn't say from whom. A spokesperson for GOB? A professor from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University? A militant from the PSM? It doesn't matter now.

The housing crisis in the Balearic Islands continues to generate concern within the real estate sector. The Balearic Association of National and International Real Estate Agencies (ABINI) has warned that the blocking of various state housing policies is aggravating the situation on the Islands, one of the territories with the most tension in the real estate market.

New real estate speculation scandal in the Balearic Islands. A 30-square-meter cottage is rented for 800 euros per month in Sant Joan de Labritja (Eivissa) and the advertiser warns potential interested parties: "The price is only for the winter season, when summer begins the price will change".

Up to 2,000 people or families from the 14 municipalities of Pla de Mallorca have saved a total of 20,412,525 euros since the Government of the Balearic Islands launched fiscal measures at the beginning of the legislature, such as the elimination of the inheritance tax or tax on inheritances, and the elimination of the property transfer tax on the purchase of the first habitual residence.

4,500 homes intended for residents only in Palma and a similar figure in the rest of the Balearic Islands. These are the forecasts of the Palma City Council and the Government to address the housing emergency suffered by citizens. These measures derive mainly from the legislation promoted by Prohens, based on the promotion of strategic residential projects. This is a figure that the sector considers reasonable, but with a key clarification: the majority of these homes will not be built for another five years.

The Balearic Islands have 112,484 people living in homes with rental contracts that expire this year or next, according to data collected by the General Secretariat of Consumption from the Tax Agency's Household Panel, in collaboration with the INE and the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

Several people affected by deregistration have reported this Thursday at the Palma plenary that their situation leaves them without access to basic rights such as healthcare, voting, or marriage.

The Eivissa City Council announced this Thursday that a new municipal plot will be used for the construction of 200 public housing units, following the approval of the change of use of the land in the municipal plenary session.

The Ibiza City Council announced this Thursday that a new municipal plot will be allocated to the construction of 200 public housing units, following the approval of the change of destination for the land in the municipal plenary session.