The Generalitat will reinforce the templates of the two public companies for which it will involve an extra workload: the housing agency and the two depend on the Department of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition, whose Minister,, explained to this newspaper that in the coming weeks he will draw “calls to incorporate some 30 people”. The sum in the coming years of 50,000 floors to (between new construction, purchases or agreements), will increase the needs of soil management and processing and construction delegation; as, in the future, the management and maintenance of the rents that will be created. If the plan planned for 2030 materializes, it will mean the current public housing park. “There are three challenges,” Paneque details: “The management of the lots; processing and the generation of new land for housing; and the future management and maintenance of the park that is incorporated.”
The Incasòl and the Agency suffered in 2011 and 2012 the cuts of the administration of the then Government of, that of public companies. In a context of, the reduction of personnel was made by applying the labor reform of the PP, which reduced compensation 20 days per year worked. In the Incasòl they affected about 200 people coinciding with the crisis after the outbreak of the real estate bubble: construction stopped dry. The labor conflict was extended in the courts and there were fireds who resorted against the administration, won and had to be readmitted. According to official data contained in the Public Employment Data Bank, in 2023 the Incasòl had 254 workers, the vast labor majority, a figure that today rises to 294, according to union sources.
Precisely to face the plan of the current Catalan executive, the director. With a trajectory linked to several public administrations, Vendrell will captain the company of the Generalitat when the Government has announced its plan. The agency’s director’s plaza was occupied by Agustí Serra after during the last legislature, with ERC at the head of the Generalitat and the Department of Territory. The Incasòl has powers in urban planning and can act as a land owner (for housing but also other uses,) and housing legislation attributes the housing promotion of the Generalitat. It is also the public company to which I know.
With the Illa Plan, the main task that Incasòl is assuming is the relationship with the municipalities that have shown their willingness to give land (or prepare it to be urbanizable), for which it is necessary to review documentation and write the transfer agreements so that it can be built. After many years of break, the staff celebrate that the company resumes the activity and prominence of other times, for which they have already been informed about the new additions. They ask, yes, to be indefinite hiring, because now part of the template is temporary.
In the case of the agency, the cuts of the era of austerity in public services were lower, because their activity includes structural tasks not linked to the economic situation, such as the management of the public park, of the aid, the rehabilitation of homes, the delegated promotion of public housing, quality of the building, legal services, and more recently services such as Opidage or the tables of emergency housing. The agency has two headquarters in Barcelona and territorial headquarters in Girona, Tarragona and Land de l’Ebre. As of December 31, 2024, according to official data, it had 533 employees.
