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About this project
Another neighborhood is possible: Help us fight against speculation and repression!
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Task
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Legal Support and Urban Planning Consulting
To generate alternative urban planning proposals, facilitate sessions with local residents, and imagine the neighborhood we want, specialized professional support in urbanism and social processes is required. To ensure that residents and collectives can exercise their rights when facing administrative processes, evictions, or expropriations, resources are allocated to legal advice and support provided by professionals specializing in social rights and urban planning.
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$ 215,890 | |
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Media and Informative Campaigns
Development of graphic and audiovisual materials to spread awareness about urban developments in the neighborhood and community alternatives. This includes design, printing and audiovisual production for campaigns such as “Expulsem NyN” (Throw out Nuñez i Navarro) and "Prou enderrocs, volem un nou MPGM" (Stop the demolitions, We want a new Modification of the General Metropolitan Plan).
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$ 62,119 | |
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Administrative sanctions and legal support
This section includes the expenses arising from the sanctioning proceedings brought against some of the residents.
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$ 201,633 | |
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Cultural Activities and Community History
Production of the exhibition "25 Years of Community Struggle in Vallcarca", including design, printing, and exhibition materials (roll-ups, information panels, etc).
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$ 18,330 | |
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Community Maintenance and Materials
Expenses allocated to materials for murals and artistic interventions of collective expression, in collaboration with local and international artists.
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$ 22,404 | |
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Campaign and Day of Resistance against Mega-Evictions
Graphic materials, sound and audiovisual infrastructure for organizing a day of resistance and mutual aid during neighborhood evictions.
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$ 22,404 | |
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Sound Equipment
Two durable loudspeaker systems for actions, demonstrations, assemblies and neighborhood gatherings
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$ 9,165 | |
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Resistance Fund
Establishing a solidarity fund to support future neighborhood organizing.
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$ 40,734 |
Material
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Campaign Costs
Cost of the courtesy gifts and the final thank-you celebration.
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$ 14,257 |
Infrastructure
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Goteo comission
Platform commissions and fees for the minimum goal.
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$ 49,390 | |
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Goteo Comission
Platform commissions and fees for the optimum goal.
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$ 11,202 | |
| Total | $ 543,290 | $ 667,528 |
General information
We're Som Barri, Vallcarca's neighborhood association. With the support of our fellow collectives and neighbors, we're launching a fundraising campaign that will help protect our community's organizers and activists as they defend Vallcarca, our neighborhood and home. The money collected will be used to cover judicial, administrative, media, and urban planning consulting expenses that have arisen during our community's struggle to create a new model for a neighborhood, one that resists gentrification.
Vallcarca is a small neighborhood in Barcelona in danger of being erased; all because of an urban project approved back in 1976. In 2002, this plan (MPGM 2002) was reactivated, and, between 2002 and 2012, led to the demolition of many homes and shops in Vallcarca's historic center, resulting in the displacement of over 250 families. Due to the economic crisis of 2008, the project came to a complete stop. Thanks to our community's organization and resistance, we managed to partially modify the plan in 2018.
Despite our efforts, Vallcarca remains under attack. On one hand, gentrification is running rampant with the proposed construction of 250 new, privately-owned homes, the vast majority promoted by Núñez y Navarro, a real estate firm in Barcelona. On the other, we're confronted with the Rambla Verda ("Green Boulevard") project, an urban plan with obsolete urban planning criteria, which the PSC (Socialist Party of Catalonia) has wanted to execute without our community's consensus. These two major open conflicts put Vallcarca in the crosshairs of speculation.
As an organized community, we have always resisted, fought, and built fair alternatives for our neighborhood. But in past few months, the situation has gotten worse, and now, more than ever, we need collective support to continue defending Vallcarca.
Mobilizing the neighborhood has been paramount. By taking to the streets in large numbers and taking collective action, we've seen tangible progress towards our goal. Thanks to our work on the ground, the City Council announced at the end of 2025 that it would put the expired "Ramble Verde" Plan up for debate, and would open a dialogue table with grassroots collectives in the neighborhood. We hope that this modification will allow us to cut back on some of the demolition, guaranteeing no homes be destroyed while building a quality green area. At the same time, this little victory has also had its cost: the mobilizations have been met with a wave of repression, with both administrative sanctions and direct attacks against key figures in the community.
That's why we're calling on you. Join us in solidarity so we can fight, keep each other safe, and strengthen Vallcarca's resistance.
Main features and goals of the crowdfunding campaign
We're fighting against an urban plan designed to push out families and destroy our neighborhood, turning Vallcarca into another playground in Barcelona for tourists and the wealthy.
Our objectives are:
- Strengthen community organizing by developing and proposing an alternative urban plan, that represents the true needs of the neighbors
- Launch an informative, critical campaign that allows us to stop the gentrifying plans of both the city council and Núñez y Navarro
- Provide legal assistance to our community, suffering from repression as they defend Vallcarca
With your support, we can:
- Cover urban and legal consulting costs necessary to develop our alternative urban plan for the neighborhood
- Finance media actions, informative campaigns, cultural activities, neighborhood historical projects, graphic materials, etc.
- Combat the administrative sanctions accrued as a result of different community and cultural actions
- Dignify public spaces and strengthen the identity of the neighborhood through art, participation, and maintaining community spaces such as gardens, parks and areas with large murals
- Start a resistance fund that will help us organize the future of Vallcarca
This campaign is a collective, grassroots initiative that combines resistance, mutual aid, neighborhood proposals and direct action. It emerges from the territory, from the neighbors and collectives that make it up, and builds real alternatives to speculation. By supporting us you will not only be helping to defend Vallcarca, you will be joining a greater fight: for the right to housing and to a decent life in our city. "Vallcarca per viure!" is a cry of resistance in the neighborhood, but it resonates everywhere and builds the resistance of a Barcelona that wants to live free and with dignity. In the battle of Vallcarca, we all win, because this conflict is the first barricade of a war fought throughout the city: to stop gentrification on all fronts.
Why this is important
This project was born out of an emergency: the mass eviction of our most vulnerable neighbors, living in a shantytown in the heart of Vallcarca, which affected around 60 people who lost everything. Later, eviction notices arrived at 3 properties where 40 people live, 13 of them minors. On top of that, we've received numerous administrative sanctions from different protest actions, sabotage of our murals and community spaces, and threats to key figures in Vallcarca's community.
And we know this is only the beginning a plan that aims to expel the most disinfranchised members of our community, so tourists and the rich can take over. We cannot allow that to happen. Vallcarca is the bastion of working class neighborhoods in Barcelona, and we will not let it be destroyed!
That's why we're reaching out to those who suffer from or reject gentrification, real estate speculation and repression—to build a network of class solidarity and defend Vallcarca.
The driving force behind this project is made up of members of various groups organised in Vallcarca, including the Som Barri neighbourhood association, the Vallcarca Housing Union, and the Heura Negra liberationist assembly. Additionally, we have the support of thirty neighborhood entities and collectives, as well as the community itself.
This project has been made possible thanks to the initiative of Som Barri, who proposed the need to take Vallcarca's fight to the next level through fundraising. Som Barri was founded in 2017, as the continuation of the Assembly of Vallcarca, which was born in 2011 during the 15M (anti-austerity) movement. Currently, it has over 200 members and a transversal and diverse participation, with people from different walks of life and socio-economic backgrounds, many of whom affected by problems related to housing. The main objective is to fight against this Urban Plan approved in 2002, which aims to expel neighbors with low incomes and replace them with tourists and people with high purchasing power. This plan makes Vallcarca the last major area of urban transformation between Gràcia and Collserola, putting the social and community fabric of the neighborhood at risk.
The permanent assembly of Som Barri is made up of more than twenty people with diverse backgrounds—architects, urban planners, lawyers, anthropologists, among other professions with relevant activist trajectories—which allows us to combine institutional action with neighborhood mobilization and constant presence on the ground. Given the opacity of the institutions, as a neighborhood association, it is our mission to keep the neighborhood informed at all times and open the way to dialogue with the city council and all entities involved. Som Barri is committed to socializing information and making it accessible and understandable, as well as promoting active and critical participation in Vallcarca’s community life.
This project has been carried out with the support of: AFA Montseny, Antic Forn, Ateneu Popular de Vallcarca, Assemblea de Joves, AV Som Barri, Biblioteca Anarres, Biciosxs, Blokes Fantasma, Bodega La Riera, Capsa de Pandora, Chusma clothing, Desenruna, Discos Pinya, Espai Relacional del casal de barri Can Carol, FEACCC, Heura Negra, Jam's Capsa de Pandora, Kapara Sound System, Kasa de la Muntanya, La Dolors, La Fusteria, La Miranda, Les Nits de la Ciència, Montserrrat, Ruderal Cooperativa d'Habitatge, Sindicat d'Habitatge de Vallcarca, Sobre mi gata, Taller d'Arts i Oficis, Vallkyries, Vicky l'Arròs y Voltes Cooperativa d'Arquitectura.
Social commitment
Solidary
This project aims to act directly on the structural causes that want to drive out the most disenfranchised members of our community and replace them with people who earn high incomes. We promote access to housing, community action, and community networks, fighting for a Vallcarca where we can live with dignity. Through collective organization and political advocacy, we empower our community against speculative interests and unfair urban policies that favor a city model of gentrification and exclusion.
Sustainable Development Goals
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No poverty
Economic growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote equality.
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Reduced Inequalities
To reduce inequalities, policies should be universal in principle, paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.
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Sustainable Cities and Communities
There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.
