Spanish cities move forward with new public housing developments in Tarragona and Pontevedra

In Tarragona, the municipal council is seeing growing interest from private developers to build in the newly created Ponent neighbourhood after the first phase of public housing is near completion. Councilor Nacho García Latorre said that requests for urban‑planning certificates have already been submitted, a normal step before drawing up building plans and applying for licences. The first 192 families are expected to move into the Les Oliveres blocks by the end of the year, bringing the area’s population to several hundred and eventually up to roughly 2,500 residents when the whole district is finished.

In the city of Pontevedra, the regional housing authority announced that 74 public apartments in the Valdecorvos neighbourhood will be handed over this summer. The project, funded partly by €3.7 million from the EU Recovery Fund and €14.2 million overall, is part of a wider programme that currently totals 301 public units across the region, though it still covers only about 10 % of the estimated need for roughly 2,300 families.