*📧 NEWSLETTER OUT NOW!* 🏘 Housing crisis ➡ Barcelona City Council has denied it waived fines to those real estate developers that did not allocate at least 30% of new housing projects to affordable or social housing. Meanwhile, the Catalan government launches a public tender to build social housing as one-fifth of all rented houses in Barcelona had been on the market for less than 24 hours 👥 Foreign-born ➡ Catalonia is home to over 8 million people, with a quarter—more than 2 million—born outside Spain. Also, Barcelona's residents born in the city made for less than half of the city's population, as foreign-born population has grown sevenfold in 25 years 🎬 Golden age ➡ Catalan News' Filling the Sink podcast focuses on how Catalan cinema has won all the prizes and applause during the awards season. And the successful plot has two major characters: 'A House on Fire' and 'The 47.' Both broke records at the box office Read more ➡ https://mailchi.mp/acn/houses-trains-and-foreign-born Subscribe here ➡ http://eepurl.com/h6_zPP