EH Bildu has proposed mobilizing and building 60,000 homes in ten years, 30,000 of them new
Suggests a large public-community housing alliance to ensure reasonable prices, consisting of basque entities, banking foundations and voluntary social security entities (EPSVs) to promote public housing in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa.
On Saturday, EH Bildupresented a strategic project to address the housing crisisinthe Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) 0 with the mobilization and construction of 60,000 public housing units over the next decade.
Bildu'sspokesman in the Basque Parliament, Pello Otxandiano EH, explained the details of the proposal during the day of the abertzale coalition on housing policy in Tabakalera de Donostia.
Thisproject, called 'Possible 30K', is based on the fact that the housing situation has now led to a 'social emergency'which, if structural measures are not taken, would have' serious economic and social consequences with the risk of social breakdown '.
The proposal isbased on three main principles : decommercialization of housing so that it ceases to be used as a "speculative business" and financial asset; prioritization of residential use over other uses; and a significant increase in the public housing stock available.
In the first phase, the initiative envisages mobilizing 30,000 housing units by taking advantage of the already built real estate park. To this end, it is proposed to recover 15,000 of the 25,000 empty mobilisable housing units, return 5,000 tourist housing units to residential use and create another 10,000 new housing units through urban regeneration and re-densification processes.
The proponents of the proposal believe that this route would enable the residential supply to be increased more rapidly than the construction of new housing, acting on the resources already available in the territory.
The second aspect of theplan envisages promoting another 30,000 new public housing units in ten years . To this end, the initiative proposes the creation of a large public-community alliance consisting of the Basque Government, deputies, municipalities, banking foundations and voluntary social security entities (EPSV).
In addition, this initiative provides forthecreation of a new public-social body called the "Agency for the Promotion of Affordable Housing" (EESE),which would be responsible for promoting protected housing for rent, sale and transfer of use, with priority given to affordable rent.
According to the detailed report of the project, the Basque Government would initially contribute EUR 1 billion and the social organisations another EUR 1 billion, to which would be added the additional funding provided by the ICO and the European Investment Bank (EIB), with a total investment of around EUR 3.5 billion.
The initiative also provides for the purchase and rehabilitation of buildings to be included in the public housing stock and proposes a model based on public land ceded through 75 years of surface rights, after which housing would be returned to the public administration at no additional cost, ensuring the consolidation of a stable and sustainable public park.
The draft also stresses the need to coordinate land policies between municipalities, deputies and the Basque Government, as well as to speed up administrative procedures in order to speed up the implementation of affordable residential promotions.
According to the promoters of 'Possible 30K', the initiative would make it possible to transform the housing market and move towards a new model based on housing rights and collective welfare.
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