The City Council of El Rosario has granted aid for the rehabilitation of housing for a value of 408,384 euros to more than thirty individuals and four communities of owners. These subsidies come from the item granted to the municipality of El Rosario within the Program to combat the depopulation of rural areas, the Housing Plan for Canary Islands 2020-2025 of Government of the Canary Islandsthrough the Canarian Housing Institute (Icavi), as reported by the Consistory in a press release.
The owners of private homes and the administrators of the beneficiary communities of owners, published on the municipal notice board, now have ten business days to present the acceptance of the aid granted, of a maximum of 10,000 euros per homefor rehabilitation works, reform of common areas of buildings and improvement of energy efficiency and whose execution period will be a maximum of six months.
He mayor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil, stresses that the creation of this line of aid “was the result of the work carried out between Fecam and Icavi with the aim of dealing with the depopulation of rural areas and helping its inhabitants to be able to remain in their usual living environmentsmaking it easier for their homes to be decent and in perfect conditions of habitability and accessibility”.
In this way, this program has the objective of fixing the population in rural areas through various actions in the field of housing, among which is the rehabilitation or adaptation of privately owned homes in rural areas to the minimum conditions of habitability, saving consumption energy, structural elements and, ultimately, those works necessary for their adequate maintenance, which would also contribute to favoring the permanence or change of residence in rural areas.
As established in the bases of the call, the home must be the habitual and permanent residence of its owners or tenants at the time of the application for the subsidy. Exceptionally, the home to be rehabilitated may be uninhabited on the date of the application, but the commitment of the person who owns the home to use it as the habitual and permanent residence of the owner or a third party under a lease within the term must be provided. two months from the completion of the works.
In the event that the subsidy is requested to carry out accessibility actions, one of the members of the coexistence unit must have a recognized disability or be over 65 years of age.
Through this line of aid, homes that are at least 20 years old can be rehabilitated, except those in which people over 65 or with functional diversity live. It is intended to encourage works to improve habitability conditions, saving energy consumption, structural elements and, ultimately, facilitate all those necessary works.
