Barcelona City Council will not collect any rental payments for the homes in its public housing stock for the months of April, May and June. Thus, a total of 8,748 families living in rental homes managed by the Municipal Institute of Housing and Rehabilitation (IMHAB) – its acronym in Catalan – will not pay any rent until July.
These families will pay the amounts corresponding to the monthly payments for April, May and June on a pro-rata basis over the following 18 months, in other words, between July 2020 and December 2021, according to a statement issued by the City Council on Tuesday.
The three-month moratorium will also apply to the 1,400 subsidised homes and 400 commercial premises that IMHAB leases on the ground floors of the buildings that it has promoted.
