He Oteiza de la Solana Town Hall found a solution for the old buildings municipal schools. Now they are sheltered housing which are made available to local youth on a to rent out as a measure to combat depopulation.
In principle, the houses, two and three bedrooms They will be preferentially assigned to people registered in Oteiza and under 35 years old, with the aim of “responding to the existing demand in the locality“, as stated in the agreement signed at the time by the City Hall and Nasuvinsa.
The reform of the old municipal schools of Oteiza has led to a total investment of 557,493 euros (VAT included), which was co-financed by the Government of Navarre (43%), Nasuvinsa (36%) and the City Council (21%).
The reform project focused on two buildings that make up the old schoolslocated on San Isidro Street, 7 and 10. Specifically, in the south building, three houses were created, two on the ground floor, with 2 bedrooms, and the third on the first floor, with 3 bedrooms.
The fourth floor is located in the north building, on the first floor, with three bedrooms. Its interior layout includes a living room-kitchen, a full bathroom and indoor clothesline in the apartments located on the ground floor. The usable surface area of the four ranges of housing between 68 and 72 square meters.
The facades of the buildings now have thermal and acoustic envelope thanks to the SATE system, in addition to the renovated PVC joinery with thermal break and aluminum slatted blinds.
Similarly, the service of heating is provided through single boilerwith underfloor heating system, which also covers domestic hot water (DHW) requirements.
Oteiza is one of the municipalities that joined the Rural rehabilitation planwhich is considering in its first phase renovation of eight municipal properties promote a total of 14 housing units, preferably for young people from rural areas of the Foral Community, with an estimated investment of 1.6 million euros.
The collaboration formula included in the agreements signed with the municipalities involves the free transfer to Nasuvinsa use of buildings or dwellings belonging to the municipality for a period varying between 5 and 24 years, “depending on the volume of the investment”, during which the public company will undertake the rehabilitation and manage the resulting dwellings under a protected rental regime.
Once the period of depreciation of investments Thanks to the rental income, the assets of these homes will return to the municipalities that own the properties.
This model of rural rehabilitation “can extend to other municipalities of Navarre“, in a strategy that aims to “recover and rehabilitate unused municipal heritage buildings in urban areas and, at the same time, promote affordable housing that can be offered to young people, thus contributing to the establishment in areas threatened by the phenomenon of depopulation.”
