Barcelona community center faces imminent eviction

<p dir="ltr">Crises like the one the Gimnàs Social Sant Pau community center is facing right now are not unheard of in Barcelona's Raval, a historically low-income but increasingly gentrified neighborhood in the city center, as property owners gradually revamp their holdings and force long-term tenants out. But the Gimnàs Social Sant Pau cooperative, a low-budget gym that also provides the city's most vulnerable with a place to eat and shower in addition to a clean change of clothes, <a href="../../../../../society-science/item/raval-s-beloved-gimnas-social-sant-pau-community-center-faces-eviction-on-april-30" target="_blank">still has two days to avoid the fate</a> many other Ciutat Vella old-timers have succumbed to.</p> / ACN

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First published: April 29, 2021 10:27 AM