The Catalan Government and the Comuns have reached an agreement to create a new corps of inspectors tasked with enforcing housing law across the region.
Under the deal, a hundred inspectors will be recruited as civil servants to ensure compliance with regulations, including sanctions for landlords who breach rent caps. The measure, costed at €5.9 million, will see 60 inspectors begin work in the coming months, with the full complement expected to be in place by the end of the year.
Half of the inspectors will be deployed in the province of Barcelona, while others will be distributed across Girona, Tarragona, Lleida, the Pyrenees and other regions.
The announcement followed a morning meeting between the Housing Minister, Sílvia Paneque, and Comuns leaders David Cid and Susanna Segovia. Cid noted that the deal was also an early step in negotiations over the Generalitat’s 2026 budget, hinting at more bargaining to come.
For the Comuns, the creation of the inspectors’ body has been a key demand, and their support for recent budgetary credit supplements was linked to progress on this front. The new inspectors are expected to play a central role in applying the sanctions regime of Catalonia’s housing law, which has faced criticism for lack of enforcement since its approval.
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