Toledo Municipal Housing and Land Corporation (EMV) will build a total of 53 officially protected homes in the Santa Barbara neighborhood. To implement both procedures – the first of its kind for direct promotion since the elections were held in 2011 … Of Azucaica and those of Calle Navidad – the budgets of this public company of the Toledo City Council include a line item of about 8 million euros in the investment chapter.
The mayor of Toledo, Carlos Velasquez, explained after the EMV Board of Directors that the approved budget – without a vote against and only an abstention from Izquierda Unida – includes in its investment annex “The elements necessary for the company to once again be able to achieve the purpose for which it was established: Building housing and facilitating access to it.
The first of these projects, located on Christmas Street, includes 40 homes and plenty of parking spaces, and has been in the works for a year and requires Special Plan of Interior Remediation (PERI) approval. The second event will be held on Santa Barbara Street, No. 12 13 houses and 13 parking spaces are also subject to the protection system.
Velasquez highlighted this This latest parade “could start even before the one on Christmas Street”, Because it does not require urban planning amendment or approval of the Regional Urban Planning Commission. “We’re talking about A A unified plot of land only needs to formulate an implementation projectHe indicated that works could begin before the summer of 2026.
Don Diego’s Choir
The mayor confirmed that the municipal corporation is finalizing the rules Incorporating Corral de Don Diego homes into the rental market. These houses complete the heritage and residential rehabilitation project around Salon Rico, which was visited this weekend by the mayors of the World Heritage Cities Group, who were “surprised by the quality and result of the intervention”.
Once the city council has finished transitioning homes to EMV, Application registration procedures will be opened either in person or through the company’s new website, which will be launched this month.
“It is a cultural and heritage space, but it is also the life of a neighborhood. “We want those who come to live in Corral de Don Diego to fall in love with Casco and continue to stay there,” said Velasquez, who framed all these measures within the municipality’s goal of preserving daily life. The living and inhabited historical centreCombining rehabilitation, housing and cultural activity.
The second year in a row with a surplus
The city mayor also confirmed this EMV will conclude fiscal year 2025 with positive results For the second year in a row, with an expected surplus of 179 thousand euros. He noted that until 2024 losses were the norm, and that this change “allows us to restore financing capacity for new housing development.”
“The establishment of order in the municipal corporation was necessary to ensure its continuity,” the mayor said, explaining that the green numbers would allow the EMV to “knock on the doors of financing to be able to implement new residential development projects.”
The mayor also took advantage of his interventionEstimate the work of EMV workersTo whom I attribute much of the progress made in project management and implementation.
“I want to make an appeal in favor of workers who do their work with enthusiasm, real passion and a call to public service. Without workers like them, it will be impossible to achieve the important goals we have entrusted to them.», he pointed out.
He highlighted, for example, the formulation of the new local police barracks project, This means saving between 75% and 80% compared to external tendering. He stressed, “This demonstrates the ability, enthusiasm, and effectiveness of the employees of the municipality’s Land and Housing Company.”
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