Masoveria urbana is an onerous contract giving a person use of a property in exchange for repairs, maintenance and improvements needed for habitability. Article 3(k) of Catalonia’s Housing Act 18/2007 leaves terms to agreement; absent agreement, duration is five years. It is a tenure contract, not a cooperative entity or an automatic grant entitlement. Article 42(3) calls for public support for these contracts and rehabilitation; an actual funding award needs its own call and applicant checks.
For a group considering this route, define the works, valuation, permits, habitability, insurance, timetable, duration and early-exit settlement before committing capital. These are practical financing questions requiring a written agreement, rather than evidence of a standard public loan product.
Navàs documents a municipal pilot in the Casa del Mestre at El Mujal: the municipality handles common-building work and residents undertake specified interior work. The page provides evidence of an implementation model; it does not establish an open application window on this verification date.
Unlike cessio-us-model, works-for-use does not require collective ownership by a housing cooperative. Compare ct-dret-superficie and ct-propietat-temporal-compartida before treating these tenures as equivalent.