Terrassa will receive €545,895 from the Diputació de Barcelona through the Local Autonomy Fund and ERC wants this amount to be allocated entirely to public housing and cooperative projects in the city. The party will bring the proposal to the next municipal plenary session with the intention of fixing the destination of an extraordinary income that must be executed during 2026.
The republican group defends that this amount is not used to cover other current expenses of the City Council and proposes reserving it for the housing sector. Its position involves directing resources to public housing and also to cooperative initiatives linked to this sector.
"We want to prevent this money from being used for patches, for plugging holes, and to allocate resources where they are truly needed" - Ona Martínez, spokesperson for ERC
ERC places housing as a political priority
ERC holds that, if the allocation ends up dedicated to this objective, this year's housing budget in Terrassa would double. The formation frames its proposal in the approval of the extraordinary fund and advances that it wants to open the debate in the plenary session to decide among all the city's most urgent priorities.
Republicans also criticize that housing has not been a priority for the current local government. In that context, they argue that the arrival of this funding offers room to strengthen a municipal policy that they consider insufficient.
"We are still very far away, we have many families in need and this exceptional income allows us to advance on the line that the Housing Plan will mark" - Pep Forn, ERC councilor
Lack of public park and waiting list
Terrassa has around 100,000 homes and about 2,000 would be public, which places the public housing stock at around 2%. ERC recalls that the European Union's recommendation sets this threshold at 15%, far above the municipality's current situation.
The waiting list to access public housing in Terrassa is 4,000 families, a figure that the party uses to justify concentrating extraordinary investment in this area. With this approach, ERC will take the item to the municipal plenary to debate its destination and try to direct the 2026 spending towards one of the social needs it considers most urgent in the city.