A step closer to converting obsolete Mallorca hotels into social housing
The hoteliers federation and the Forum for Civil Society are due to sign an agreement.
New social housing for Pollensa
Pollensa has provided a stark example of the mistake made with VPO properties.
Social housing development in Mallorca
A previous social housing development.
360 'limited price' homes for rent in Palma
Prices will be 30% below the average rental.
Your seven days news round-up in Mallorca
This week we talk about the weather, fire, Palma Springs project, social housing, protecting heritage and limit vehicles entering Mallorca.
Now the Partido Popular agree to Balearic tourist tax spending on social housing
The PP changed the law to stop the tax being used for social housing.
The 27,000 affordable homes that have been lost in the Balearics
VPO homes, a form of social housing, have quite legitimately been sold on the open market.
Your seven days news round-up in Mallorca
Mallorca's economy, tourist spending, flights to Mallorca this winter, overtourism, hotel investment, social housing, high weather temperatures...
Tourist tax for demolishing old hotels in Mallorca - or for creating social housing?
Should the purpose be the creation of public space or affordable homes?
Living in a shack - More shanties than ever in Palma
An estimated ten per cent increase in the number of shanties over the past four years.
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.
- Ryanair grounds 12 Spain routes over excessive airport taxes
- End of the Golden Visa....but there is a new way to live in Spain with few problems
- Nautical exodus from Mallorca
- The EU threatens the future of Mallorca beach bars
- Non-resident Britons and Americans buying a property in Spain face massive tax bill, PM announces