Twenty-one families from Santanyí have today entered their new public housing development located at Carrer de s’Era, 11. The new tenants received the keys in a ceremony presided over by the President of the Government, Francina Armengol, accompanied by the Councillor for Mobility and Housing, Josep Marí; the Mayoress of Santanyí, Maria Pons, and the Director General of Housing and Architecture, Cristina Ballester.
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The ceremony was also attended by the manager of IBAVI, Olvido Terrassa, and the island’s director of Urban Planning, Lluís Corral, among other authorities.
This is the first public housing development in the municipality of Santanyí. It is a development designed and built for its landscape integration in the municipality, which uses zero-kilometre materials and a high energy efficiency that allows a very significant reduction in energy costs.
During the event, which also included a visit to two of the homes, the President of the Government stated that “housing is one of the most serious problems facing the citizens of this Autonomous Community” and that, for this reason, “since 2015 we have been clear that it had to be a priority: since then we have asked the local councils for land, we have passed a housing law, we have multiplied rental aid by seven and we will end the legislature with 72% more public housing”.
Francina Armengol also stressed the importance of investing in housing policies and insisted on how important it is “that they do not stop because it is essential to guarantee the right to housing for the citizens of these islands” and because “only with a strong public housing stock will we be able to reduce the price of the private market”.
The new tenants have an individualised rent adjustment, which in no case exceeds 30% of their income, and will pay an average of 321 euros per month for renting these homes.
The building consists of 23 flats on the ground floor plus two upper floors. Of the 23 flats, there are six flats between 50 and 60 m² with one bedroom and seventeen flats between 60 and 80 m² with two bedrooms, two of which are accessible. The orientation of the development is southwest. Porches are generated to reduce the most unfavourable sunlight in summer and, in addition, there is solar protection in the form of blinds.
There are currently 613 public housing units under construction in the Balearic Islands.
By 2022, 390 public housing units will have been delivered. Thus, it is expected to increase the public housing stock by 72% before the end of the legislature, and to incorporate 1,273 new homes.