13,000 new homes for Palma - But when and what type?
The housing department can process the land for development, but the new water-treatment plant is needed.
Public housing project in Mallorca
Public housing project in Santa Ponsa; Calvia is one of the municipalities that qualifies as being a stressed area.
Colonia Sant Pere illegal bungalows offered as social housing
The prefab bungalows could be dismantled and used somewhere else.
Plot in Palma, Mallorca where a social housing project has been paralysed.
The plot in Palma.
Social housing project on hold because of government and builder dispute
Thirty-five new homes should have been finished in July last year.
Old hotels to solve the housing crisis. Government plans massive purchase
The government first announced this several months ago.
Public housing project in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca
Ninety-nine VPO protected housing properties in Santa Ponsa.
Balearics acceptance that rent caps will have to wait for the next government
Months of disagreement among political parties at the national level.
Mallorca's housing - what are the solutions?
A summit at which politicians made their pitches and experts provided their expert opinion.
Hotels being converted into Social Housing
Hotels being converted into Social Housing.
A Balearic government presentation about its social housing
This is a Balearic government presentation about social housing it is creating.
Balearics architects criticise the lack of new social housing
At the same time, there is a growing trend to the building of ever larger and more expensive houses.
President Armengol handing the keys to a tenant of new social housing in Palma, Mallorca
President Armengol handing the keys to one of the new tenants.
Joy for tenants of new social housing in Palma
President Armengol - "We do not want more luxury homes but ones that the middle and working classes can access."
Hotel conversion to social housing - not a single taker
The law stipulates that 50% of hotel conversion to residential accommodation must be for social housing.
28 million euros of tourist tax for housing purposes
Social housing and the mortgage guarantee scheme.
More social housing to be built in Palma
All of the new buildings in Carrer de Caracas will be used for social housing.
Empty hotels & hostels could be used as social housing
The aim is to use the empty hotels and hostels to alleviate the housing emergency.
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- British tourists will be “tracked” while on holiday in Mallorca
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"