The Generalitat recorded **13,325** eviction requests in **2023**, the highest figure in Spain. The **General Council of the Judiciary** is now starting to measure cases of special vulnerability.
In 2023, Catalonia processed 13,325 eviction requests and executed 7,148. According to the report from the Generalitat, these requests correspond to just as many households at risk of losing their homes, placing Catalonia first in evictions across Spain.
The opinion column that serves as the basis for this information focuses on the vulnerability of these households. Its author recalls that President Salvador Illa and Mayor Jaume Collboni have argued that cases like that of Mari Carme would not occur in Catalonia, and that the community does not present situations of eviction for vulnerable individuals as reported in other places.
To approach this vulnerability, the column references the Anti-Eviction Unit of the Barcelona City Council. According to their data, 80% of the households at risk of losing their homes lived below the poverty line and had reports of social and economic vulnerability.
If this percentage were applied to the 13,325 cases of 2023, it would result in about 10,660 households. The text itself warns that this is an estimate and not an official statistic from Catalonia, as the percentage comes solely from Barcelona. With that caution, the order of magnitude would be around 10,000 households annually.
The new data comes from the General Council of the Judiciary, which for the first time explicitly counts requests for suspension due to special vulnerability. In the fourth quarter of 2025, there were 2,732 requests submitted in Spain, and 2,559 were resolved. The body itself notes that the data is new and has an indicative nature.
The courts granted 472 suspensions in that same quarter, representing nearly 18.4% of the resolved requests. The suspended evictions are distributed among 221 under the protection of Article 1 of Royal Decree-Law 11/2020, 84 from Article 1 bis, and 167 from Article 441.5 of the Civil Procedure Law.
The CGPJ has not yet published the breakdown by communities, so the Catalan figure is an extrapolation. If Catalonia maintained its share of state evictions, it would be around 700-750 requests for suspension per quarter. Meanwhile, between 2021 and 2024, there were 768 compensation requests from Catalan property owners affected by extraordinary suspensions, a figure that the text itself considers partial, as it requires meeting additional criteria and applying for it.
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