Catalonia is the great anti-example of housing management for Marga Prohens' Government. In this Tuesday's plenary session, the president once again attacked the Generalitat, because she believes that the rent price limitation it applies does not work and, furthermore, restricts the supply available on the market. "You have two masters: Pedro Sánchez, Catalonia and your inferiority complex," she snapped at the Minorcanist Josep Castells when he demanded that she apply the declaration of stressed zones in the Islands. Furthermore, she highlighted that this territory is the community where the most evictions in the State take place, a fact that she attributed to the management of the socialist Salvador Illa. But when looking at the available official figures, these correlations are not so clear. The Islands, where the price limitation is not applied, are the second community with the most evictions according to the number of inhabitants. And although in 2025 fewer rental contracts were signed than in 2023 in Catalonia, in the Balearic Islands, where there is no restriction on prices, they have also decreased. Where there is a difference is in rental prices: while in Catalonia they have been contained, in the Islands they have skyrocketed.

A couple with two children, one of whom has a disability, had to face this week a situation for which no one is prepared: being evicted from their home. The eviction, scheduled in Palma, was suspended. It had already been postponed in July, when activists gathered in front of the building, and now the court has once again halted the eviction. According to Stop Evictions Mallorca, the new state regulation approved by Pedro Sánchez's government this week, which Vox, the PP, and Junts overturned in a debate in Congress that will go down in political history, was one of the legal arguments taken into account.

The ‘Maricarmen decree’ has already served as a legal basis to suspend at least four evictions in Mallorca in just a few days. The latest one was stopped this Friday morning in Palma, where the eviction of a family in a situation of social and economic vulnerability living at 44 Bisbe Cabanelles street, in the Pere Garau neighborhood, was scheduled.

Various groups in defense of the right to housing have called for a rally this Sunday, June 21, at 12 p.m., in Plaça d’Espanya in Palma to denounce the housing situation in the Balearic Islands and protest against evictions carried out by administrations without offering residential alternatives.

Ibiza will begin a new tourist season with the eviction of workers who They live in caravansTents and shacks due to the impossibility of accessing housing. Since last July, they have been living precariously in an illegal settlement located between the Palladium Can Misses stadium and the second ring road, the E-20.

The housing emergency in the Balearic Islands could worsen with the review of rental contracts expiring at the end of the year. According to figures from the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs, and Agenda 2030, island tenants whose contracts end then will face a rent increase of €4,615 per year. This increase adds to an already unsustainable situation for many families: the average rent in the Islands exceeds €1,500, the second highest in Spain after Barcelona. The perfect storm is compounded by the expiration of the state ban on evicting vulnerable families, which, if nothing is done, will end on December 31. This situation could affect 60,000 families, according to estimates published by the newspaper. The CountryThe moratorium on the ban on evicting vulnerable families was approved in December 2024 – this measure was applied during the pandemic.

This Friday at midday, the Stop Evictions platform in Mallorca attempted to prevent a woman and her two disabled children from being forced out of a ground-floor apartment on Sureda Street in Portocristo. According to sources from the group, the apartment they lived in had been reported by a neighbor who argued that it was a commercial space, not a residence. The contract they signed was for one year, renewable for up to five, "despite the fact that the law states it must be seven years when the landlord is a legal entity," the platform points out. After five years, the landlord reclaimed the apartment and from then on "didn't fix anything, neither the dampness nor other problems." Furthermore, the contract had been signed by the tenant's ex-partner, who has a restraining order against him and her two children. The group also denounces that the property owner "owns more than ten properties," a fact he allegedly "hidden" in the certificate attached to the lawsuit. They also suspect the possible "falsification" of a registry document. The woman didn't understand the dates of the eviction and the trial. "She planned to go to the trial without a lawyer, unaware that she would be evicted before the trial for not having requested a public defender within the first three days after receiving the lawsuit," says the platform, which adds that the Social Services department of the Manacor City Council "made an attempt in court" to stop the eviction for this family, but "the court ignored them." Helplessness

Furthermore, the platform denounces the "defenselessness" of the woman and her two evicted children, a situation the group is considering reporting to the Congressional committee that oversees compliance with the Charter of Citizens' Rights before the Justice Administration. They assert that this Friday morning, court officials at the Court of First Instance Number 3 in Manacor refused to read the document submitted by the affected woman, which she had also previously sent yesterday to a court email address that has since changed, making it unrecoverable. In this document, the affected woman explains that the premises where she lives "are registered as a dwelling" and that, following the complaint received by the Manacor City Council's Urban Planning Department, she has been unable to access the file because she had not been notified. She also explains that, due to her status as a victim of domestic violence at the hands of her ex-partner, she has lost her job and is "not in a position to know" how to defend herself or understand the documents. She claims she didn't realize the trial date was after the eviction date and that the appointment she finally scheduled with a public defender was after the eviction planned for November 21st. Therefore, the woman requests the retroactive annulment of the proceedings due to her "extraordinary and exceptional circumstances stemming from the violence and harassment she suffered," or, failing that, the "suspension of the proceedings" to initiate the vulnerability claim provided for by law, with the aim of "having time to begin preparing and be able to prove that we are in a situation of economic and social vulnerability."

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A judicial commission on Thursday executed the eviction of a mother and her minor son who were living in one of the substandard apartments on Joan Miró Street in Palma. These apartments are owned by a local police officer who was sanctioned by the government for renting them out.

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Stop Desahucios Mallorca has reported that two evictions were carried out this Tuesday in two homes located in Son Roca and Son Anglada, from which two women and three minors were evicted.

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The judicial delegation has halted two evictions scheduled for this Thursday affecting a woman and a family living in the storage rooms on Avenida Joan Miró, owned by the Palma local police officer fined by the regional government for renting these substandard apartments.

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Stop Desahucios Mallorca has successfully halted the evictions of two people living in storage units on Joan Miró Street, owned by the Palma local police officer who was sanctioned by the government for renting out these substandard homes.

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