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-Alzamora points out that in addition to young people, there are especially vulnerable groups that need social housing, such as single women with children, disabled people and the elderly.
-The municipal training claims that being a user of the municipal housing park involves meeting a series of requirements that many people with difficulties can not assume
NOW MURCIA demands that it be renewed and increase the public park of municipal social housing, which manages to meet a high percentage of the demand by the most vulnerable population.
Councilman Miguel Angel Alzamora emphasizes that "the existing park is insufficient and is also very deteriorated and outdated, so it is necessary to rehabilitate municipal social housing in use and build more."
Alzamora points out that in addition to young people, there are groups that are especially vulnerable and in need of social housing, such as single women with children, people with disabilities and the elderly.
"The first step," he says, "has to be a rigorous diagnosis of the municipal problem in housing and land, which will involve, among other things, analyzing the supply and residential demand, the existing housing stock, the infra housing , the empty housing of the municipality, public and private resources related to housing policy, etc. ".
The councilor stressed that the situation of the municipality in terms of social housing "is very difficult, because they have been carrying out municipal housing rental programs very inefficient and with tiny investments, in addition to a collapse of social services to the time to manage social aids that are used to pay rental emergencies. "
In addition, being a user involves fulfilling a series of requirements that many people with difficulties can not assume, such as the municipal rental program requires that they are residing with a contract for two years in the home that will be subsidized part of the rent, or that the payment of the subsidy is made in a single annual fee when accumulated rental bills already paid by the user.
"This operation causes many low-income people can not access the aid," he says.
The mayor of Murcia Now says that the figures that show the need to increase and improve municipal housing policies are strong: "The demands of municipal social housing are about 1,200 for many years." There are about 600 people homeless in the The city of Murcia, and more than 200 people, mostly families and predominantly women with children, suffer extreme residential exclusion, extreme housekeeping, and the number of evictions per rental does not stop increasing in the Region, with an increase in the last quarter of 38.2%, according to the Council of the Judiciary.
"To these data," says Alzamora, "we must add the statistics related to poverty and social exclusion, which are also of great concern in the municipality," said the European Network to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion ( EAPN) of the Region, 30.7% of the population of the municipality suffers risk of poverty or social exclusion, while 40% of the homes of the municipality do not have the capacity to face an unforeseen expense of 650 euros with their own resources, 11.4% have had delays in payments related to housing, 15.9% come with much difficulty at the end of the month with their income, and 17.2% can not afford to keep their home at an adequate temperature during the cold months. "
Miguel Angel Alzamora denounces that "the opposition groups have been waiting since January for a census on the municipal housing park, as well as a diagnostic report on the need for housing for vulnerable families in the municipality of Murcia, and a diagnostic report on small property or large forks, second homes, etc.- of the empty housing of the municipality of Murcia, is another example of the null interest of the Government of Ballesta in terms of municipal housing.
Content of the Plan
The Municipal Social Housing Plan now demanded by Murcia and whose need will be in the form of a motion to the next plenary session "above all should take into account in its program of action measures such as the promotion of housing and / or public accommodation for rent, under the cession of use, such as housing cooperatives in use, and other possible formulas, the placing on the market of empty homes (around 30,000 estimated in Murcia), social rental programs, housing swaps programs for families with needs special, maintenance and rehabilitation of the public park after its analysis, or promote some of these actions on municipal land paying special attention to promote housing actions in the lands from the transfer of the corresponding use to the City.
The councilor points out that "the latest reform of the Regional Housing Law, 10/2016, requires that its regulations be urgently developed, so that it becomes effective and serves to address the problem of evictions and energy poverty."
Alzamora concludes that "the European Union itself states that social housing should not be considered a cost to cut, but an investment that is amortized in the medium term, through greater social welfare and health, access to the labor market and the training of people to live independently. "
NOW MURCIA
Source: Ahora Murcia
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