The families moving into the homes will pay affordable rents of between 663 and 831 euros a month which along with communal costs will not exceed 40% of the family income The promotion includes a total of 27 homes 19 of them for the free market and 8 with official protection The flats have a useful floor space of between 71 and 89 square metres The homes have been assigned to applicants on the Barcelona register of officially protected homes as follows: two for people under the age of 35 two for people from the surrounding area (Navas one for single-parent families and one under general circumstances Urban Planning and Mobility Area is responsible for providing municipal services linked to the public areas and city services which make life easier for people who live and work in the city.  The City Council seeks to ensure a quality public space a green and biodiverse city that is productive and resilient a city committed to active and sustainable mobility with public involvement and commitment Urban Planning and Mobility Area has different instruments as well as advisory and participatory bodies for effective involvement and collaboration in municipal projects with the general public The Council sees to the smooth running of the city services to ensure the daily wellbeing of the public and contribute towards the city's development The remodelling project for the Jardins de Massana includes an area with swings and climbing elements along with a sandpit for children to experiment with and spaces for free play Local people backed the project through the participatory budgets Work will get under way in May and should be completed at the end of the year The transformation of the Jardins de Massana also includes improved access to the site which is located in the inner space between some buildings creates paths with parterres and adds urban furniture Twenty children’s play areas will be remodelled this year adding to the thirty existing areas with these characteristics where all the games have inclusive elements The goal is for 90% of citizens to have one of these spaces within 10 minutes of their home in 2025 The city has nearly 900 children’s play areas in all a hundred of which have at least one inclusive element This menu requires arrow keys to be able to use it Located in the district of L’Eixample on the corner of C/ Viladomat and C/ Consell de Cent the new homes include services such as communal spaces for leisure and relaxation The ground floor of the building will be used as a centre for the elderly The flats have a useful floor space of between 41 and 45 square metres and all of them have an outdoor terrace The rooftop is available for all residents to use as a communal space Rental prices for the homes are established according to the financial capacity of the tenant with a maximum of 541 euros Twelve of the 47 homes have been reserved for local people from the neighbourhood The U-shaped building is on the corner of C/ Viladomat and C/ Consell de Cent which will house the centre for the elderly (opening in the autumn) six floors with a total of 47 flats with services and an underground car park with two levels and a capacity for 33 vehicles The shape of the site meant a public access could also be created to get to the inner gardens of the block from C/ Viladomat This development brings the number of homes with services for the elderly in Barcelona to 1,825 in all Managed by the Municipal Institute for Social Service the model of homes with services for the elderly in Barcelona includes features such as telecare phone lines multi-purpose halls for communal activities cleaning and internal alarms in case any incidents occur   Social activities are also organised to combat unwanted loneliness The goal is to reach 2,000 homes with services for the elderly this year The project to reurbanise Plaça del Canòdrom in Sant Andreu has started The project will turn the square into a space for public use currently urbanized as a provisional public leisure space has long been demanded from the El Congrés i els Indians neighourhood’s associations The project will focus on an areal totalling 8,425 m2 and include an agora for holding public ceremonies and activities such as outdoor film screenings an area for dogs measuring some 450 m2 and a basketball net benches and urban furniture will also be distributed throughout the area so that its paths will act as resting areas into addition to walkways a large-area super children’s games area offering children several possibilities for games and exploring I twill consist of a net full of recreation activities for playing above and below The landscaped area will measure a total of 2,245.5 square metres along with lines of trees to provide shaded areas accessibility to the square will be guaranteed through three large entrances located in the surrounding streets the lighting system will be renovated and the dog-track layout maintained The square is named after Antoni Bonet i Josep Puig’s old Canòdrom [dog track] building dating back to 1964 and now listed in the City’s Historical-Artistic Heritage Catalogue and especially important within the neighbourhood The Canòdrom building is part of a set of modern architectural works put up after the Spanish Civil War and the only building in the city with an exclusively metallic structure to have survived that period The four area units now operative provide service for 90,000 people The Vila Veïna pilot project started in October in four city neighbourhoods with the roll-out of a new care model based on proximity This pioneering municipal initiative means teams of specialised professionals people who receive care and members of the community form part of a network which is jointly responsible for collective welfare The offices already in operation provide access to care resources and offer free community activities to strengthen mutual support networks The activities offered by the four facilities are aimed at carers families and local people who take part in support networks They promote support groups for child-rearing intergenerational activities with elderly people and children physical activity outdoors for the elderly sitting and action to make public space a place for care too Analysis of the state of care in the pilot neighbourhoods a survey was conducted of two thousand people from the four neighbourhoods in the pilot project to gauge the situation with care for local people The preliminary study showed the following data: These data highlight the need to strengthen care and community responses to guarantee everybody’s right to care and be cared for The roll-out of Vila Veïna in the city corresponds to a transformation in the social and healthcare model joint responsibility and personalised care The main change comes through conceiving care as a shared community task Because community care is better than solitary care It is a community area with between 10,000 and 30,000 inhabitants where all social and healthcare resources are shared with the goal of everybody having them nearby and being able to access them easily Each unit will have a headquarters for the team of care specialists each territorial unit will adapt to the particular needs of the neighbourhood where they are implemented Twelve more units will be established in 2022 The roll-out should see 115 units established in total La noticia que cerqueu ha estat despublicada Podeu consultar altres noticies clicant aqui.