The Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council has proposed to the Canarian Housing Institute the rehabilitation of 400 homes in the Añaza neighborhood, in accordance with the actions proposed in the “Program to help rehabilitation actions at the neighborhood level of the Plan de Recovery, Transformation and Resilience ”, which is financed with European Next Generation funds and published this week by the Government of Spain in the Official State Gazette.
The municipal corporation, chaired by José Manuel Bermúdez, evaluates the action to be carried out in Añaza in an investment of 10.7 million euros destined to the improvement of these 400 homes. The proposal made by Juan José Martínez, Councilor for Finance and Housing, raises the receipt of an aid, charged to this state and European program, of 8.56 million euros, and to complete the budget for the action (2.2 million euros) through co-financing by the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo, City Council and owners of the dwellings that are the object of the rehabilitation.
This aid program regulates the actions in terms of residential rehabilitation and social housing of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of Spain, but must comply with the lines established by the European Union that aims to rehabilitate homes with efficient criteria from the point of view of energy view, since they are financed with European Next Generation funds.
For this reason, it is specified that the reinforcement of public and private investment is carried out to reorient the production model, promoting the green transition, decarbonisation, energy efficiency, the deployment of renewable energies, the electrification of the economy, development energy storage, the circular economy, nature-based solutions and the improvement of the resilience of all economic sectors, specifically including a component focused on promoting the rehabilitation and improvement of the building stock, both in urban areas as rural.
The rehabilitation of these 400 homes in Añaza must therefore ensure maximum ambition in the field of energy and sustainability, while promoting comprehensive actions that contribute to improving quality, state of conservation, accessibility and digitization of buildings.
The Santa Cruz City Council presents this project to rehabilitate hundreds of homes in the popular neighborhood of Añaza to fulfill its priority objective of acting in the areas of the municipality where the people who need it most are found and to improve the quality of life and sustainability of the capital’s built park.
The Law of General State Budgets for the year 2021 will allocate an amount of 1,151 million euros to attend the subsidies of these aid programs, and the Community of the Canary Islands will receive 52.8 million euros this year. The Santa Cruz City Council intends to participate in these funds by receiving the aforementioned 8.56 million to rehabilitate 400 homes in Añaza.
It is, indeed, an enclave that meets the requirements in the sense that it is a territorially delimited area, at least 50% of the built area is mainly used for residential housing, actions eligible for subsidies This program also includes actions for the improvement or rehabilitation of buildings of predominantly residential use for housing, and it is intended to obtain a reduction of at least 30% in the consumption of non-renewable primary energy in the actions of urbanization, redevelopment or improvement of the physical environment .
Juan José Martínez pointed out that “we hope to achieve the maximum amount of aid, which is 21,400 euros per home, because the project of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council for Añaza contemplates a saving in non-renewable primary energy consumption that will allow us to reach the higher percentage of the subsidy, which is expected to be 80% of the cost of the action ”.
