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The Department of Housing and Transport, who heads Antonio Castillo, whose main goals for next year continue to subsidize public transport, complete the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and implement the tram line 1.

Likewise, take additional action on housing, to facilitate access to housing for those most in need.

The budget for the Transport area amounts to 9.45 million euros and, although a decrease of 8% compared to 2009, will remain public transport subsidies, subsidizing the ticket as they do today and offering additional discounts pensioners, large families, students, bus pass, etc..

In 2010 it will increase the number of stalls with information systems in real time, reaching 20 points.

Also, it helps keep the 'eurotaxis'.

The main project for 2010 will be the completion of the works of the tram line 1 (which connects Murcia with universities) and its implementation.

This project has an investment of 202 million euros, the biggest in the history of the town, and a generation of 600 direct jobs during 2009 and 2010 and a forecast of 60 permanent jobs for 40 years administrative award.

Also, next year will be completed redevelopment proposals taking the tram transport as the guiding and structuring the whole public transport system in Murcia, and feasibility of proposals for possible future lines 2, 3 and 4.

Next year will also be completed Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan that will propose a redistribution urban areas of goods, pedestrian, traffic restricted areas, and urban public transport.

This Plan shall submit proposals in relation to buses, intermodal stations, road safety, etc.

In the area of Housing, the total budget (between current expenditure and investments) amounted to 3.08 billion euros.

The provision for grants is increased by 13.33%, mainly for housing rent subsidies and nonprofit entities working in this sector.

In 2010 it developed three programs:

Subsidy for rental homes in the free market to members of the municipal register of applicants.

The aid ranges from 900 to 3,000 euros per year, depending on the cost of rent and income.

The applicant for aid is an active part of the solution to your problem, as it seeks to shelter and care about to meet its obligations as a tenant to continue to enjoy the housing and the subsidy.

Housing rent subsidy shared by people with Down syndrome and university of Murcia.

This new program, in collaboration with Fundown, has been a total success in 2009, helping to achieve collective autonomy of citizens.

Grant to the attention of families benefiting from the relocation program, developing the partnership Habito, by acquiring houses with funds from the Institute of Housing and Land and relocate the municipal registration applicants who are in grave situation of exclusion.

The investments were up by 29.61%, with the greater part of the rehabilitation and acquisition of housing for the relocation, and for people enrolled in the municipal register of housing applicants.

Investments will also be for the completion of 15 homes in the Holy Spirit Espinardo.

It will launch the new program of "optimizing the use of housing ', that is to move older tenants, living alone in council housing to new apartments, fully equipped for your needs, built to a specific care program.

This action will restore underutilized housing to solve the problem of housing for new families.

Also, will begin a program to improve the accessibility to housing (reforms in bathrooms, toilets, doors, elevators) for people with disabilities, and will launch a line of subsidies to rehabilitate areas of municipally owned housing .

Also rehabilitate the roofs and facades of 160 homes in the neighborhood of Los Almendros de La Alberca, this project is funded by the Housing and Land Institute of the Autonomous Region (50%), City Hall (25%) and owners housing (25%).

Work will commence in early 2010.

It will make arrangements with the Housing and Land Institute for the rehabilitation of housing blocks from the old Board 'Francisco Franco', although from the Delegation of the Government response was not obtained on this matter.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia