Allotjar les majories. Barcelona, 1860-2010

Housing has been a constant challenge in the contemporary city. The lack of housing intended for working-class people has been a problem shared by many large cities around the world.The exhibition shows the construction policies and the rules of access to housing for urban majorities throughout the 20th century in Barcelona: from unaffordable rental at the beginning, to a very harsh postwar period, to an almost compulsory purchase of the flat as property during the late Franco regime and, finally, to the advances in democracy, although the interventions were more effective in public space than in the field of housing.