The meeting dealt with issues such as the approval of the Menorca Social Housing Plan 2024-2028.
The councillor of Territorial and Tourism Planning, Housing and Urban Agenda, Núria Torrent, and the island director of Territorial Planning and Housing, Conchi Gómez, met with representatives of the Consell Insular de Menorca, all the town councils, the IBAVI, the Social Services of the GOIB, the SOIB, IB-Salut, the different professional associations, the Red Cross, Caritas and the Fons Menorquí de Cooperació to set up the first Island Round Table for the Right to Housing and the City.
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The Department of Territorial and Tourist Planning, Housing and Urban Agenda meets with town councils and organisations to set up the Island Round Table for the Right to Housing and the City
The aim is to follow the road map to cover the current and future needs of all Menorcans in terms of social housing and to provide possible and real guarantees in different situations.
During the meeting, the Menorca Social Housing Plan 2024-2028 was approved, a planning instrument shared between public administrations, entities, organisations and all the socio-economic agents of the territory in response to the challenges and problems that affect access to social housing in Menorca. A tool to guarantee the right to housing by effectively promoting actions and consolidating the offices, services and resources already deployed in recent years.
In addition, during the meeting, they also discussed issues such as the collaboration agreement between the IBAVI and the CIM to manage the Citizen Accompaniment Service for Housing, the purchase of a plot of land from SAREB in the municipality of des Mercadal to give it to the IBAVI for the construction of flats, the current situation of the Low Exigency Centre and the creation of the Technical Benefit for Stable Renting.
‘The creation of some 80 social emergency flats is planned with the purchase of the site from SAREB, with some of them owned by the Consell, where they can be allocated to people who are at risk of social exclusion and who are homeless so that they can have a first flat to live in,’ explained the councillor, Núria Torrent.
On the last point, the councillor reported that ‘the Ethical Renting programme has become a stable service within the Consell Insular, which will be called Alquiler Estable (Stable Renting). This aims to promote long-term residential rentals, encouraging people to offer their flats for rent at a reasonable price and giving the Council a series of guarantees and confidence to owners in order to reverse this lack of housing that we have in Menorca,’ she concluded.