the neighbors of The rosary They can now take advantage of an aid program of 557,000 euros to improve their homes. The City Council has opened the deadline to apply for a subsidy from the Program to combat depopulation in rural areas, from the Canary Islands Housing Plan 2020-2025 of the Autonomous Government. The regional executive, through the Canary Housing Institutehas granted the rosariera corporation a direct subsidy amounting to 556,726 euros and now individuals and communities of owners have until June 20 to apply for aid of a maximum of 10,000 euros per home for rehabilitation works, reform of areas common buildings and improvement of energy efficiency.
The bases of the call They state that the dwelling must constitute the habitual and permanent address of its owners or tenants at the time of the application for the subsidy. Exceptionally, the dwelling to be rehabilitated may be uninhabited on the date of the request, but the commitment of the person who owns the dwelling to assign it to the habitual and permanent residence of the owner or a third party under a lease must be provided within a period of two months counted from the completion of the works », detailed the Consistory. “In the event that the grant 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,” he added.
The objective of the program is “to fix the population in rural areas” through various actions in the field of housing, “among which is the rehabilitation or adaptation of privately owned houses in rural areas to the minimum conditions of habitability, saving energy consumption , structural elements and, ultimately, those works necessary for proper maintenance of the same, which would also contribute to promoting the permanence or change of residence to rural areas.
The beneficiaries of these subsidies must be of Spanish nationality and be registered in El Rosario. Besides, they must be owners or co-owners of the home or representatives of the neighborhood community in the case of a residential building. The application forms together with the required documentation may be presented in the general registries of the City Council and the Mayor’s Office or through the electronic headquarters of the municipality. Once all the proposals have been assessed, a list of the applications submitted will be drawn up, ordered by the score obtained, from highest to lowest, indicating the budget to be subsidized.
It should be noted that with these aids that are now announced, homes that are at least 20 years old can be rehabilitated, except those in which people live. over 65 years of age or with functional diversity. The aim is to encourage works to improve habitability conditions, energy consumption savings, structural elements and, ultimately, facilitate all those works necessary for proper maintenance.
