Some of them later were relocated to the privately owned Casas Baratas (low cost housing addressed to the working and lower middle class) in the Bon Pastor, Can Peguera, Ferrer i Guardia and Barón de Viver neighbourhoods.
[1] With the end of the Exposition, the situation deteriorated even further, with a sharp increase in unemployment and famine, at a time when the only public benefit was aid for the destitute.
Faced with this situation, the construction section of the CNT created the Committee for Economic Defense, with which they intended to reach an agreement with the Chamber of Property and the City Council to reduce the price of rents.
[1][5][7] The start of the strike was followed by a huge wave of evictions, forcing the workers to create a resistance fund to meet the payments of people without income.
[5] Evictions began to be carried out in a more violent manner, with furniture being thrown out of windows, and the entire Committee for Economic Defense was imprisoned.
In 2023 it was adapted into a comic book format as Rebel·lió: La vaga de lloguers del 1931 (Rebellion: The rent strike of 1931), in an edition by the City Council of Barcelona.
[2][11][12] Other rent strikes have occurred in countries such as Chile, Mexico, Argentina, the United States and Canada, although they did not reach the scale of the one in Barcelona.