THE Junta of Andalusia announced this Friday the recent signing of agreements for the granting of more 38 million euros In grants has promoters both public and private “to help them in the construction of 17 housing estates spread across five Andalusian provinces: Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Málaga and Seville“. In total, they will be 1,237 housing units.
THE Minister of Development, Territorial Articulation and Housing, Rocío Díaz, announced at the close of Mediterranean Real Estate Exhibition (Simed) of Malaga this important step: “The construction of affordable housing is the central element of housing policies in Andalusia. It is in the DNA of Juanma Moreno’s government that already in 2019, when no one was betting on it, we called for first aid to the promoters.
He recalled that since then, several calls for this training program have been launched. Promotion of the rental housing stockthanks to which “more than 4,400 housing units are completed, under construction or about to be started and an amount of 35.2 million has already been reserved for 2025”.
He explained that if we add additional aid from Europe, through the Eco-housing planthe plan drawn up by the Council for the management of European Next Generation funds, the figure rises to almost 6,700 housing units promoted thanks to subsidies and aid.
The advisor specified that a week ago the bilateral agreements were signed between the Junta de Andalucía, the Ministry of Housing and public and private developers for the construction of 1,237 housing units through the Rental Housing Parks Promotion Program of the Ministry of Development, with a subsidy of 38.3 million euros.
Within these agreements, the construction of promotions in Aguilar de la Frontera (Córdoba), Cúllar (Granada), Almuñécar (Granada), Huelva, Punta Umbría (Huelva), Seville, Martín de la Jara (Seville), Dos Hermanas (Seville) and the city of Málaga.
In the specific case of Malagacited aid for the construction of two other projects promoted by the The town hallthrough the Municipal Housing Instituteintended for the elderly: 16 sheltered housing units on Gómez Ocaña Street, in Cruz del Humilladero; and 20 others with the rehabilitation of an old corralón on Mendizábal Street, in La Victoria.
These promotions are in addition to more than 1,000 homes for rent at an affordable price that are being built in the university sector and the development of other initiatives such as the unlocking of the urbanization of residential land in Lagar de Oliveros, among others.
The advisor called for collaboration from the sector in “a stage of transformation that presents great challenges and enormous opportunities”. “The real estate market in Andalusia continues to be one of the main drivers of our economy,” said Díaz, who added that, in this context, the approval of the future Housing Law of Andalusia “acquires a more great relevance.
In this sense, he called for it to be “a law for all, free from bigotry, prejudice and legislative blunders» and which aims above all to guarantee the right to housing, which implies “promoting a greater stock of social housing and encouraging affordable rentals.
A path, he declared, in which public-private collaboration will have “a leading role”, since “we must go hand in hand with developers, builders and real estate agents to generate creative and innovative solutions that meet the needs of the market. . ” “.
