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MURCIA NOW regrets the failed meeting held today, the Working Group Plan Municipal rental housing, because the PP did not refer to other groups their proposals on this matter until yesterday afternoon.
Councilman Luis Bermejo notes that "Now Murcia was the only training they gave their proposals before the date set as the deadline, on June 20, but the case of the PP has gone much further, because its failure to deliver their proposals hours before the meeting has caused us to postpone the work until Wednesday, because we have not had time to analyze properly and as neighbors demand the work they have given us. "
Bermejo also notes that the proposals of the PP for rental housing "only contemplate disadvantaged groups, when in Now Murcia believe that we must stop designing public housing as exclusively intended for people in poverty or at risk it, to consider it as an option for most citizens. the City Council must try to serve all people in need of housing, especially rental and implement specific measures for people in situations of exclusion ".
The council recalled that "1 out of every three murcianos have trouble accessing housing, so the PP should take this working group seriously as an opportunity to improve the quality of life of thousands of Murcia, and not just as a photo. Do not work with rigor in the preparation of the working groups and their development is a clear lack of professionalism and respect for citizens from now vehemently denounce Murcia ".
Bermejo explains that at the meeting next Wednesday will study the proposals now Murcia in this area, highlighting a brokerage service between landlords and potential tenants for rental housing as one of the measures to increase the housing stock of rental and social housing in the municipality.
The council notes that the first thing that should be done in the municipality is "a study on housing needs and another on empty houses, to then know how many of these people would be willing to put for rent" as "the study on housing needs is necessary because the Municipal Register of Claimants of housing (RDV) is a static indicator and does not reflect well the reality, because not everyone who wants access to housing is recorded, plus the 3 years automatic low because if not renewed the request ".
The mayor said that the Law 6/2015 Housing Murcia envisages the creation of an Office of Housing, "which will, among others, functions as intermediary in cases of eviction or generate measures to encourage households with energy poverty, but the role in rental housing that we propose is not contemplated. "
Bermejo says the brokerage service of the City Council "would be a guarantee for both parties, owners and tenants, exercising a proactive role in finding owners interested in renting and offering guarantees as guarantor" since, as noted by the council, "the possibility of default discourages many homeowners to put their homes for rent ".
Regarding actions to increase the stock of social housing in the municipality, Bermejo highlights two of the measures proposed by Now Murcia: "One is to promote the performance of players in the social economy, which enjoy a special status and can propose prices more lower than those of conventional economics. "
Another measure is to "encourage the creation of housing cooperatives in cession through reductions in property tax and other tax and subsidy actions."
The spokesman Now Murcia, Alicia Morales, says that when talking about social housing, "it is important to take steps to avoid ghettoization, ie areas where only resident people in poverty or at risk exclusion, we must prevent the housing problem resulting in social problems. "
Therefore, Bermejo said that "can require that each urban development a percentage of homes are social housing. This measure promotes the integration of various socioeconomic categories, avoiding stigmatization neighborhoods contain only social housing. Another option is buy single homes empty park housing and transform them into social housing. "
Morales also said that now Murcia has proposed that the rehabilitation of buildings in the city, especially in its historic center is encouraged. "The rehabilitation of buildings is especially needed in the historic center, which also plays a fundamental role patrimonial Plans protection of the historical center should incorporate mechanisms for rehabilitation of older buildings with conservation pathologies. in addition, reuse of old buildings can be a considerable saving of resources compared to a new work equivalent ".
Bermejo, meanwhile, concludes that the aim of these proposals is to "promote the commodification of housing and promote universal access to it", and hoped that the Working Group Municipal Housing, to which these measures have been submitted, "study it with interest because it is fundamental to the municipality a comprehensive plan for social housing."
The mayor also reminded the council of Heritage, Rafael Gomez, that the proposal, adopted unanimously in plenary, to establish a group comprehensive work to develop a municipal plan for rental housing was the work of Now Murcia and not PP, contrary to what Gomez said Tuesday.
Source: Ahora Murcia
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