The Forum proposes to the Government to create a public housing stock of 40,000 homes by 2040.

PalmThe Civil Society Forum has proposed to the Catalan government the creation of a public housing portfolio of 40,000 homes by 2040, the implementation of various policies to contain rental prices, and the continued limitation of tourist housing.

These are some of the proposals included in the final document emerging from the 2nd Civil Society Congress, held a few weeks ago in Palma, which had housing as its central element. This document was presented this Monday to the Regional Minister of Housing, Territory, and Mobility, José Luis Mateo.

This was during an institutional meeting held at the headquarters of the Regional Ministry, also attended by the Director General of Housing and Architecture, José Francisco Reynés. The Forum was represented by its president, Josep Benedicto, and the members of its executive committee, David Abril and Jaume Garau.

The document, the Forum reported in a statement, contains more than 100 proposals grouped into five major thematic blocks: housing and land availability, social emergency, de-commodification, governance and taxation, and enabling measures.

These include the possibility of creating a public housing stock of 40,000 homes by 2040, the implementation of policies to contain rental prices, and the limitation of tourist rentals. Also included is the halting of evictions for those affected without alternative housing, the de-commodification of housing through the creation of cooperatives and non-profit models, the promotion of taxation that penalizes speculation, and the activation of mechanisms to mobilize vacant housing.

During the meeting, the Forum representatives expressed their desire to foster a broad social and institutional pact to implement these measures and urged the regional minister to consider them as a "solid foundation for future public policies."