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- Registration in the municipal register: Yes. You must be registered in the dwelling for which the benefit is claimed. In order to attend to specific and urgent accommodation situations, and the applicant does not have a DNI (Spanish national identity document)/NIF (Tax Identification Number)/NIE (Identity number for foreign nationals), it is deemed sufficient to provide proof of six months of registration in the municipal register immediately prior to the date on which the application was submitted by the applicant. 

Legal residence: Yes. It is mandatory to have a residence permit proved with a residence authorization.

- Necessary documentation: DNI/NIF/NIE, valid passport or equivalent valid document of the applicant and of all the members of legal age of the household. If any member of the household does not have a DNI/NIF/NIE or passport, they must provide the identification document they possess.

Legal residence in Barcelona must be proven.

- Income: The applicant’s household income must be no more than 2 times the weighted Catalonia Income Sufficiency Indicator (IRSC), in the case of people living alone, and no more than 2.5 times the weighted IRSC in the case of households with two or more members. The household’s income may not exceed the following amounts:

In the case of persons with disabilities or severe dependency, the income may not exceed 3 times the weighted IRSC:

- Wealth: Neither the applicant nor any other member of the household may have a dwelling in ownership or usufruct, unless he/she does not have the use and enjoyment of it due to separation or divorce or for any reason beyond his/her control, or when the dwelling is inaccessible due to the disability of the owner or any member of the household. A person is not considered to be the owner or usufructuary of a dwelling if the right is only over an aliquot part of the dwelling and has been obtained by transmission mortis causa.

The household may not have a taxable savings tax base of more than 500 euros. An exception to this prohibition is made in cases where this amount is the result of a dation in payment as a result of a foreclosure on a home that has been the applicant’s habitual and permanent residence.

- Recognised disability/Dependency: In the case of people with disabilities or severe dependency, the income threshold is made more flexible in order to facilitate access to benefits for this group (see section “Income”).

- Victim of gender-based violence: One of the target groups for this aid are people who have completed their stay and inclusion process in a residential resource for women victims of gender violence in which the referral service is the SARA (Care, Recovery and Shelter Service) or ABITS (Agency for a Comprehensive Approach to Sex Work) of Barcelona City Council.

- Housing situation: The lease contract must be for a property located in Barcelona, which must be intended for the applicant’s habitual and permanent residence, understood as that which constitutes the applicant’s domicile according to the corresponding municipal census.

- Other requirements:

- Rental debt: To have defaulted in the payment of rent or to be in a situation of difficulty in meeting the financial obligations arising from the lease of their habitual residence due to an objective lack of financial resources.

- Beneficiaries: 

a) People signing a rental contract for a dwelling once their stay and inclusion process in a residential resource of the Inclusion Housing Network of Barcelona in the last 6 months or in a residential resource for women victims of gender violence in which the referring service is the SARA (Care, Recovery and Shelter Service) or ABITS (Agency for a Comprehensive Approach to Sex Work) of Barcelona City Council has ended, as well as people who, at the request of the Assessment Board for the allocation of housing due to social emergency, have lost their habitual dwelling and sign a new rental contract.

b) People assisted by the mediation service of the Barcelona Housing Office Network and who:

b.1) have signed a rental contract through the Barcelona Rental Housing Exchange.

b.2) have agreed to a minimum reduction of €50 per month on the rent, provided that they submit the application for these benefits within 120 calendar days from the effective date of the reduction agreement signed with the property owner. As an exception, the requirement of the rent reduction agreement will not be enforceable if legal proceedings have been initiated against you for non-payment of rent for the same dwelling or if there is a reliable notification of a claim for the rent debt from the owner.v.

b.3) have received a reliable communication from the landlord advising of the termination of the rental contract and, through the mediation services of the housing offices, are in a position to maintain it.

c) Households that have been beneficiaries of guaranteed temporary assistance and/or the housing support service provided by the Social Rights Department of Barcelona City Council, provided that they submit an application for these benefits within a maximum period of 60 days from the date on which the effects of the guaranteed temporary assistance and/or the housing support service come to an end.

- Amount of rent: The amount of monthly rent for the dwelling for which the benefit is claimed may not exceed 970 euros. 

- Allocate more than 30% of the net monthly income of the household to the payment of the rent corresponding to their habitual and permanent residence.

- Ensure the ability to continue to pay the rent for their habitual and permanent residence. This requirement is considered to be met when it is demonstrated that it is at least, including the amount of the subsidy awarded and the monthly income of the household, an amount equal to the amount of the rent.

- Neither the person who holds the lease nor any other member of the household is related by marriage or any other analogous stable relationship, by consanguinity, adoption or affinity up to the second degree, with the lessors. This same criterion shall also apply to the relationship between the lessor and the lessee, when the former is a legal person, in respect of any of its partners, associates or participants. 

- Pay the rent for the dwelling for which the benefit is claimed by bank transfer or direct debit from a bank account held by the applicant, direct debit or a receipt issued by the property manager, at least from the month following the date of submission of the application.

- These benefits are not available to tenants of housing owned or managed by the Catalan Housing Agency or by the Barcelona Municipal Institute of Housing and Rehabilitation, as well as housing subsidised by public programmes. 

- Those who have been awarded a social emergency financial benefit derived from mediation in Barcelona city in the 2022 call for applications for the same dwelling are not eligible for these benefits, except in cases of duly accredited separation or divorce or in cases where there is a reliable claim for non-payment of rent. 

Incompatibilities

These subsidies are incompatible with perceiving other subsidies from other public Administrations or public or private entities for the same monthly amount in the same year and with the same end. In case of duplicity of subsidies for the same monthly amount a partial or a total revocation according to the duplicity incurred will proceed.

Further information

– The deadline for submitting applications begins the day after publication in the DOGC and BOPB and ends on 5th December 2024.

– The deadline for the submission of applications for benefits may be closed at an earlier date depending on the availability of funds. The closing of the admission of applications for the benefit will be made by means of a resolution of the Manager of the Barcelona Housing Consortium, which will be published in the DOGC and the BOPB.