The Palma City Council will request the courts to carry out the forced eviction of the last 80 people residing in the old prison, after dismissing the allegations presented. This was confirmed by the spokesperson and councilor for Finance, Contracting and Heritage of the Palma City Council, Mercedes Celeste, at the press conference following the Governing Board meeting, in which this new step has been approved to recover possession of the property that was once inhabited by more than 200 people.

The tension between the caravan dwellers of Son Hugo and the Palma City Council continues to rise. The residents of the area report feeling "harassed" by Cort and by police actions, while they claim that living in caravans is not a choice, but the only possible alternative given the runaway increase in housing costs in Mallorca.

1.- Build 10,000 affordable homes in the coming years

The Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands share the dubious honor of being the autonomous communities with the fewest protected homes built in the last 25 years. Today they are two of the communities with the most problems in meeting the housing demand of a large part of the population – for different reasons, but also for this one. A tiny fraction of the 300,000 houses and apartments built since 1981 are public housing. Therefore, the first measure to tackle the housing crisis in the Balearic Islands involves decisively increasing the public housing stock, and doing so "constantly" is demanded by consulted experts, such as real estate advisor Pedro García. "The problems are not solved in one or two legislatures," he assures, and emphasizes that if 10,000 protected homes are not built in the coming years, it will not be noticeable.

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The government insists with a stubborn obstinacy to sell us the "Alquiler Seguro" program as housing policy, despite its unmitigated failure. It has captured a meager 4.1% of the flats it predicted: 82 out of 2,000. It has had to swallow the inflated figures it packaged to get headlines, amplified by TeleProhens, a public and propagandistic entity immune to discouragement in the face of the single message that the Balearic Islands are doing well.

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The residential market in Menorca is increasingly out of reach for those who live there year-round. However, for the first time, proposals and measures are being put on the table that do not consist solely of ceding land to Ibavi for it to promote social housing. The island's Council is promoting the purchase of unoccupied private buildings, and experts and business people suggest that land be reserved for residents to separate this offer from the one that now dominates the market, aimed at attracting the attention of the wealthy.

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Politicians must represent the people. This is such an obvious maxim that when public representatives ignore it, it is very disappointing. It turns out that the Government promoted a regulation that allows the largest developable lands in Palma, mainly in the hands of development companies, to build 45% more homes on the same plot than stipulated by the General Plan. In other words, where developable land owners could build 100 homes, they can now build 145 in the name of the housing crisis.

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The Plenary of the Consell de Mallorca approved this Thursday the free transfer to the Balearic Housing Institute of the land located next to the Illes Balears Velodrome, in Palma, so that more than 300 public protection homes can be built. Thus, the announcement made by President Llorenç Galmés in the General Policy Debate held on March 30 to "provide a response and solution to the main problem of the Majorcans: access to housing" becomes effective.

]]> The pro-Trump Spanish patriotic party has done it again: it has slipped a new racist and exclusionary proposal onto the media and political agenda, which takes advantage of the diverse discontents of society to attack the most vulnerable people. At other times, women have been victims of male violence that, according to them, does not exist. Minors have also been turned into beasts whose teeth we must check. Now, it has targeted one of the groups they most often attack: migrants. With the typical and hackneyed propaganda of fascisms past and present: Spaniards, first. 'Ours', first.

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Year 1994. In Son Espanyolet, a residential neighborhood of Palma characterized by its ground floors and corrals, life revolves around a couple of nerve centers. There is a parish center, owned by the Theatines, which hosts everything from the Espanyol basketball club to the now-defunct Nostra Terra theater company. On a corner, on Contestí street, a haberdashery is much more than a shop: it is a meeting point, where many people who learn to sew and crochet spend their afternoons.

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Javier Burón resorts to a simile to explain the housing problem as a public manager of the matter, with 25 years of experience in different regional governments. "We see how the lava advances and we are sitting on the terrace saying: 'Well, there's time.' When we have the lava on top of us, we'll see what we do.'" Author of the housing problem (Arpa Editors) and managing director of the public company for industrial land, housing, and territorial cohesion of the Government of Navarra, he is participating this Thursday, April 30, in Ca n'Oleo in Palma in a conference organized by the UIB on what is needed to have social and affordable housing.

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The spokesperson for the Platform of Mortgage Affected People (PAH), Àngela Pons, has lashed out at the decision of the Palma City Council (PP with the support of Vox) to reject neighborhood requests to reverse the transfer of endowment plots to development companies for housing construction. Pons has censured that public land is being given away to put homes on sale for 270,000 euros or rental flats for 1,400 euros. "They are not limited prices nor reasonable rents," she criticized, before concluding: "They are giving away municipal land to rent flats for 1,400 euros".

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A new development of homes on Joan Bauzà street, in the Palman neighborhood of Pere Garau, has ignited debate among residents over sale prices. Most apartments exceed 330,000 euros before VAT, with amounts that can reach over 530,000 euros (including VAT), figures that many residents consider beyond the reach of the area's usual population (and which expel them from the neighborhood where they have grown up and want to live).

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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.

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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.

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The Palma City Council plans to transform the site of the old prison into a new residential complex with more than a hundred endowment homes. The project includes around 130 apartments, with a combination of protected, assisted living, and affordable rental housing.

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“To many workers, it’s no longer worth coming to Ibiza”. The one expressing this forcefully is Guadalupe López, general secretary of Services and Consumption for UGT in the Pitiusas, the majority union in hotels. Her offices handle between 15 and 20 daily inquiries from sector workers, most of them asking if they can arrange a leave of absence. “People can no longer come to Ibiza because they can’t find a place to stay, or they can’t afford it, and since they are seasonal permanent workers, they ask how to request a leave of absence,” explains the union representative. According to the hospitality collective agreement, a seasonal permanent worker can take a maximum leave of absence of two years. “In some cases, the worker inquiring has found a better job on the Peninsula; perhaps not as well-paid as in Ibiza, but with a much lower cost of living; in other cases, they simply can’t find a place to stay,” specifies Guadalupe López. The Balearic Islands hospitality collective agreement is “the best in Spain”, according to her, with salaries in any case exceeding 1,700 euros gross for waiters, kitchen staff, or room attendants; salaries that will increase by 4% this year.

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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.

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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.

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HePalma City Council The city has removed some 240 homeless people from the municipal register after initiating a review of the city's resident registry in the last four months of 2025. The handling of the case has sparked considerable controversy because it involves basic rights, especially after the initial explanations of the Councilor for Social Services were called into question. Lourdes Rocawhich even the City Council has contradicted.

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