The municipal housing stock will add 458 affordable rental apartments for young people. The project, forged during the mandate of socialist mayor José Antonio Serrano, will be completed within two years, after the Government Board took the first step yesterday. Approved the procedure by which the City Council accepts the subsidy granted by the Autonomous Community, from the European 'Next Generation' funds, which will allow the construction of these rental homes at affordable prices in six districts and two neighborhoods of the city.
The project, called 'Murcia Crece', has an investment of 63.7 million euros (of which 22.6 million come from European funds) and is the result of an agreement signed between the Government of Spain and the Autonomous Community. To get it started, the City Council has reserved a dozen municipal plots where ten buildings will be built in areas with high real estate demand, such as the districts of Cabezo de Torres, La Alberca, El Palmar, Santiago and Zaraíche, Churra and El Puntal, as well as the neighborhoods of Ronda Sur and San Basilio. “This initiative is a strategic axis within our city model, which will mean a territorial balance and an economic boost for the municipality, especially in the areas where the homes are going to be built, which are in high demand,” as highlighted by the spokesperson for the local executive, Rebeca Pérez. She announced that the forecast is for the 458 homes to be completed in December 2026.
“A socialist initiative”
«With the strategic project 'Murcia Crece', the City Council will create a public rental housing system in the municipality, but we also seek to achieve territorial balance in urban growth through different initiatives that involve both the promotion of rentals and for the constitution of housing cooperatives on public land. An example of this is the first cooperative that has been launched in the district of Puente Tocinos under the name 'Aire' and whose 26 homes have already been put up for sale and are in the process of searching for partners,” added Rebeca Pérez. .
From the Socialist Municipal Group they recalled that this housing project for rental was launched by the previous mayor, José Antonio Serrano, in January 2023. «We are very happy that they are taking on a socialist project, largely financed by the Government. of Spain, with the aim of facilitating access to housing,” said the spokesperson, Ginés Ruiz Maciá. In that presentation it was announced that the rental price would range between 350 and 500 euros.
70,000 euros for business projects
At its meeting yesterday, the Governing Board of the Murcia City Council approved the call for the XXXII Business Project Competition, an already consolidated initiative that seeks to strengthen the business fabric of the municipality through support for new initiatives that are starting. The contest that is being launched has an amount of 70,000 euros in prizes, financed from the budget of the Economic Promotion Service of the Department of Open Government, Economic Promotion and Employment directed by Mercedes Bernabé. With these grants, the City Council seeks to support projects promoted by entrepreneurs and recently created micro-businesses, thus stimulating investment in Murcia.
Thanks to this call, those responsible for the selected initiatives will receive financial aid, as well as training and municipal advice. Councilor Mercedes Bernabé recalled regarding this issue that “the Employment and Economic Promotion Plan of the Municipality of Murcia 2024-2027 contemplates as a strategic axis the need for public administrations to promote and facilitate entrepreneurial initiative, self-employment, the social economy and economic and social development, supporting projects that help the entrepreneur in his beginnings at the beginning of the activity, in his development and in future internationalization. All natural persons, individually or in groups, who are domiciled in the municipality of Murcia, registered as self-employed and who have started their activity as of January 1, 2023, or who have a project in development.
«One hundred objectives achieved in ten months»
“We have unlocked and launched more than a hundred projects to carry out city initiatives, projects that are strategic for the municipality,” highlighted this Friday the vice mayor and spokesperson for the local executive, Rebeca Pérez, in the assessment she made of the first ten months of government of José Ballesta's team. Among the initiatives launched, the vice mayor highlighted projects such as the Costera Sur greenway, whose bidding has begun and whose works will connect the districts of this area of the municipality with “another transformative project”, Conexión Sur. In addition, Rebeca Pérez referred to “important progress” in Las Fortalezas del Rey Lobo, with the excavations in the Larache pool and the rehabilitation of the Molino Armero, in the district of Cabezo de Torres. The rehabilitation of the Old Prison, the Verónicas market, the Interpretation Center of the Wall of Santa Eulalia, Murcia Río, with the Metropolitan Park, the recovery of the Islamic site of San Esteban, the imposition of Baroque Murcia and a River of Culture , are other of the projects he referred to along with the “unblocking” of the El Raal bridge.
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