The Lleida City Council has granted licenses to build more than 1,000 homes since the start of the term, and a portion of this volume is concentrated in affordable price developments promoted on public land. Of this total, 240 homes are part of this segment, and the council has also activated transfers to private developers to expand the supply.
The main paradox of the municipal plan is that a city with more than a thousand licensed homes continues to rely on public land and public-private collaboration formulas to try to bring affordable rental housing to the market in neighborhoods with the greatest need for new supply.
Torre Salses will add 88 affordable rental units
One of the planned projects will be built in the Torre Salses sector, on carrer de Francesc Bordalba i Montardit, where the construction of 88 homes for affordable rental has been authorized.
The action is not limited to residential development. The planning links this operation to the expansion of the Víctor Torres road, a connection with which the municipal government wants to improve communications between La Bordeta, Els Mangraners, and the city center.
In parallel, the council has transferred land to developers through public-private collaboration to enable the construction of up to 800 affordable homes in different areas of the city.
Els Mangraners already has 121 occupied homes and the Centre Històric will add 31 more
The deployment of affordable housing already has an executed phase in Els Mangraners, where 121 apartments have been built and already have tenants. This figure places this neighborhood as the point where the municipal strategy has already moved from licensing to effective occupation.
In the Centre Històric, on the other hand, progress is in the phase of closed agreements for new developments. Two operations have been agreed upon there that will allow the incorporation of 31 more affordable homes.
One of them foresees 20 apartments on carrer Cavallers. The other will add 11 at the intersection of carrers Ereta, Alsamora i Galera.
Outside the urban planning sphere, the city's cultural activity left another recent local reference with the performance of the soprano from Lleida Montserrat Seró in the opera La Traviata at La Llotja, after her training at the Conservatori Municipal Ricard Vinyes.