Tender for the Construction of 783 Public Homes in 40 Catalan Municipalities

The Catalan Housing Agency has launched a tender for individual developers across 59 plots, including five municipalities in the Terres de l'Ebre.

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Generic image of a modern residential building in a Mediterranean urban setting.

The Catalan Government, through the Catalan Housing Agency, has opened a tender for individual developers interested in building 783 public homes on 59 plots across 40 municipalities, including five locations in the Terres de l'Ebre.

This initiative, launched last Tuesday, aims to facilitate the construction of protected housing by individually tendering plots. Most of these lands are small-scale, with capacity for 20 homes or fewer, and come from municipal transfers, the Catalan Land Institute (INCASÒL), or Generalitat Heritage.

"If no more developers come forward after this period, a direct award will be made."

Sílvia Paneque · Minister of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition
The decision to tender each plot individually, rather than grouping them, responds to the desire to find developers who can better adapt to the specific characteristics of each location. The only exceptions to this rule are the plots in Rialp, Llavorsí, and Baix Pallars, where local councils have preferred joint offers.
Of the 59 plots, 38 were ceded by local councils as part of the first call for the public land reserve, with a potential for 526 homes in 27 municipalities. These councils, often lacking the technical means to issue their own tenders, entrusted the task to the Generalitat. The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, signed agreements with some of these councils last March, marking the first time the Generalitat has tendered construction on plots it does not own.
Additionally, 16 plots are owned by INCASÒL, with capacity for 201 homes in 8 municipalities, and 5 more plots belong to Generalitat Heritage, with a potential for 56 homes.
In the Terres de l'Ebre region, the operation will be deployed in five municipalities. In La Sénia, a municipal plot will accommodate 17 homes. In Xerta, the action focuses on a Generalitat plot with provision for fifteen homes. Finally, in Amposta (8 homes), Alcanar (18 homes), and Móra la Nova (88 homes across seven plots), the plots are owned by INCASÒL.
A notable innovation is the introduction of self-promotion for plots with smaller capacities (11 plots with fewer than 10 homes). This modality allows groups of families to submit a joint offer, build the homes through a construction company, qualify them as permanent official protection, and then own them for 75 years for their habitual residence.