The Estepona (Malaga) town council has announced the sale of two municipal plots for the construction of 110 subsidized housing units (VPO) in the Camino de Cortes area, in the Atalaya zone.
These homes will be under the general and special schemes, in their various sale and/or rental forms.
The Estepona (Malaga) town council has announced the sale of two municipal plots of land for the construction of 110 social housing units (VPO) in the Camino de Cortes area, in the Atalaya zone.
These homes will be under the general and special scheme, in its various sale and/or rental modalities.
Each of the subsidized homes will have a garage and a storage room.
The land, which was put out to tender last August, was acquired by Fundación Vimpyca, a non-profit construction charity whose aim is to promote subsidized housing.
The mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, and the heads of the Vimpyca Foundation signed the deeds of sale for the land.
The first of these lots has a surface area of 5,882 square meters, a buildable area of 8,116 square meters and a capacity of 78 housing units.
The other has a surface area of 2,418 square metres, a buildable area of 3,337 square metres and a capacity of 32 homes.
As of now, the construction company will begin the administrative procedures so that work can begin, Estepona Town Hall said in a press release.
Anyone interested in purchasing one of these homes must register with the municipal register of housing applicants, which is held at Estepona town hall.
The mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, underlined “the government team’s commitment to people and the promotion of measures to facilitate access to housing for the most disadvantaged groups”.
In this sense, he regretted that the city’s previous left-wing governments “sold all the municipal land intended for this type of housing to developers of partial urban plans, leaving the city with no public land on which to build subsidized housing”.
He explained that “in the first opportunity he has had since becoming mayor to obtain land for subsidized housing, the land was ceded to enable the construction of the 100 subsidized homes that were built in the Juan Benítez area and handed over to their owners this year”.
He also stressed the “commitment” to continue promoting the acquisition of plots for this type of housing on all new land developed for urban development.
In fact, the City Council is currently working in the upper Monterroso River zone to obtain new plots for this purpose.
Likewise, Mr. García Urbano appreciated the “social sensitivity” of the Estepona City Council government team towards the needs of citizens and vulnerable groups, and stressed that “the priority of management has been and will continue to be that no one’s basic needs are neglected”.
This is why, among other measures, he referred to the unlimited nature that has been granted to the economic item for emergency social aid in the municipal budget.
