Carrer Trinxant 14, Barcelona / 2026
Javirroyo paints CASA NOSTRA on the wall at Carrer Trinxant, 14, in Barcelona: a vulture carrying off a house, with a crowd of people running after it.
About a year ago we met Javirroyo to think about what we could paint on the wall at Carrer Trinxant, 14, in Barcelona. Every year we paint a subject there that matters to the city. And this wall has something special about it: it is a house.
Javirroyo chose to talk about the housing crisis and started drawing. A vulture carrying off a house. A cardboard box for a home. A congress of big landlords. Empty flats staring at young people with empty pockets. Every week there were more.
In the end we had five mural proposals and more than forty cartoons, and we couldn’t pick just one. The housing problem doesn’t fit in a single image: it is thousands of situations, and each one belongs to someone.
One wall was no longer enough
That’s how CASA NOSTRA was born. On Carrer Trinxant, Javirroyo has painted the vulture carrying off the house, with a crowd running after it. The rest of the drawings will go into a book, which we want to make happen through a crowdfunding campaign on Verkami.
While we were preparing it, we asked ourselves a question. Javirroyo’s drawings look exaggerated. Are they? We went looking for the figures on evictions, rents, tourist flats and young people leaving home, city by city, and gathered them in CASA NOSTRA IN DATA, each one linked to its source so anyone can check it.
He wasn’t exaggerating much.
Javirroyo draws it with humour. The data isn’t funny at all.
A book about housing had to be good for more than just reading. That’s why 20% of what we raise will go to the strike fund of the Sindicat de Llogateres, Catalonia’s tenants’ union.
CASA NOSTRA in data: are the drawings exaggerated?
The drawings look exaggerated. The figures on rents, evictions, tourist flats and young people leaving home say not by much. Pick your city: every figure comes with its source.
It used to be the bank. Now it's the landlord.
In 2025, 80.3 % of evictions in Barcelona were for unpaid rent (1,102 of 1,373). In Spain as a whole, it was 74.6 %. For every mortgage eviction, there were 8.7 for unpaid rent.
Same flat. Different price.
In Barcelona, landlords are asking about €1,370 a month today to rent a 68 m² flat. Tenants already renting a flat like that pay €900. Per square metre, today's asking rent is 47 % higher. New contracts signed averaged €1,137 (Incasòl, Q1 2026).
Save for 22 years. Then we'll talk.
Someone who saves 20 % of what they earn would need 22 years to put together the deposit for a 70 m² flat in Barcelona. With taxes, the deposit comes to about €106,000: 30 % of a €353,000 flat. We assume they earn €24,150 net a year, a typical income in the city. After that, they would still have to pay a mortgage of about €1,320 a month.
Leaving home: science fiction based on true events.
In Spain, 67.1 % of young people aged 18 to 34 live with their father or mother. Among those aged 26 to 34, 44.3 % still do (INE, 2025). In the city of Barcelona, 18 % of people aged 25 to 34 live with their parents, up from 15 % in 2020 (City Council, 2025).
Flats for tourists. Homes for neighbours, barely.
In Barcelona there are 8,231 tourist flats and 8,520 public rental homes owned by the city council. That's almost one tourist flat for every public home.
To let. Less and less.
In Barcelona, 30,789 rental contracts were signed in 2025, 40 % fewer than in 2019, when 51,294 were signed. And 57 % of the flats advertised for rent are now short-term lets (Idealista).
Crowdfunding · Verkami
The CASA NOSTRA book
Javirroyo's cartoons that didn't fit on the wall, in a book about the housing crisis.
- 40+cartoons
- 5mural proposals
- 20%for the tenants' union
20%
20% of what we raise will go to the strike fund of the Sindicat de Llogateres
A book about housing had to be good for more than just reading. The Sindicat de Llogateres, Catalonia's tenants' union, organises and supports the fight for the right to housing: for every 10 € pledged on Verkami, 2 € will go to its strike fund, if the campaign reaches its 18,000 € goal.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the CASA NOSTRA mural?
At Carrer Trinxant, 14, in Barcelona, on a wall that is a house. Every year Rebobinart paints a subject there that matters to the city; in 2026 Javirroyo painted it, in October.
Who painted the mural?
Javirroyo, an illustrator and cartoonist. He chose the subject, the housing crisis, and made five mural proposals and more than forty cartoons. The wall shows a vulture carrying off a house, with a crowd of people running after it.
What is CASA NOSTRA?
A project by Rebobinart and Javirroyo about the housing crisis, in three parts: the mural on Carrer Trinxant, a book with the cartoons that didn't fit, and CASA NOSTRA IN DATA, the figures on rents, evictions, tourist flats and young people leaving home for 40 Spanish cities and regions, each with its source.
How can I get the book?
Through the crowdfunding campaign on Verkami, from 26 October to 4 December 2026. The book brings together Javirroyo's cartoons, the five mural proposals and photos of the wall.
Where does the money go?
20% of what we raise will go to the strike fund of the Sindicat de Llogateres, Catalonia's tenants' union, if the campaign reaches its 18,000 € goal.
Where do the CASA NOSTRA IN DATA figures come from?
From identified sources such as Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE), the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the Ministry of Housing, Eurostat, Idealista and Inside Airbnb. Every figure links to its source so anyone can check it.
CASA NOSTRA. Because everyone should have a home.
Idea and illustrations: Javirroyo · A project by Rebobinart (direction, production and publishing) · CASA NOSTRA in data: Rebobinart · Photography: Laura Abad · Video: The Posttraumatic · 20% of funds raised: Sindicat de Llogateres
