Leafon the periphery at the gates of Barcelonabegins to glimpse the first signs of the solution that will unravel the pending relocation of the residents of the battered building on Venus Street, condemned in 2002 to a demolition stuck since 2010 by the costs unaffordable costs that were demanded from dozens of families, trapped in one of the areas where the least income is declared in Catalonia. In any case, the eviction of the 239 homes inhabited in the deteriorated property will not be immediate nor will it be resolved in one go: it is expected that it will be done in stages until 2028 if there are no further delays, the cross that those affected have borne while the problems of substandard housing, poverty and drug sales in some apartments.
The Government promises that the transfers will begin this first quarter of 2024, when it is expected that around thirty households that has been acquired in the neighborhood located in Sant Adrià de Besòs are assigned to families that inhabit the Venus block. Waiting for the start of the removalsthe Generalitat has put out to competition through the Incasòl a contract that must culminate with the construction of 66 officially protected apartments to relocate residents of the property that has to be demolished, as reported by the Desdelamina.net portal. The Department of Social Rights does not rule out the possibility of more being erected.
The open tender now is not yet to build the new property, but to draft the construction project. The exit cost is 428,843.52 euros, including VAT. Even without dates to be erected, the future building is subject to the requirements that Incasòl establishes.
Preset dimensions
The Generalitat organization states that each of the 66 floors must measure 61.80 square meters, the same as the Venus homes, built half a century ago to house residents of urban centers. barracks and public housing seekers. He emphasizes that “it is very important” that the predetermined dimensions are not exceeded “in any case.” He emphasizes that, if overcome, “it would mean an increase in the price of the replacement home” for the neighbors of the building to be demolished.
Prevention is justified by the failure that precedes the operation that is now being attempted: the property was scheduled to be emptied starting in 2010, but was frustrated by the high amounts required to exchange an impoverished home from the 70s for another newly built one. In some cases, the bill exceeded 40,000 euros. The majority of families did not find how to apply for credit.
The La Mina Consortium -participated by the Generalitat, the Deputation and the town halls of Barcelona and Sant Adrià – now undertakes that those rehoused who move to an apartment with the same square meters as the one they live in Venus will only pay the taxes trading. The amount can fluctuate between 10,000 and 15,000 euros. The Government offers to keep 15% of the property of the homes to assume the disbursement and thus get rid of everything spent to those who are overwhelmed by hardships.
“Social complexity”
At the same time, the specifications emphasize that “it is important” that the block be erected taking into account “the social complexity” from La Mina. He points out that, “to facilitate the coexistence”, it is necessary to conceive “community spaces” in the new property, which “make it difficult to appropriation individual and cannot become an extension of any home.
It also requires putting “attention specific” to the roof space of the ground floors. “They must not be accessible, either from community areas or from homes,” stipulates Incasòl. He adds that “the design of community spaces must avoid corners and dead angles to avoid possible conflicts”. In Venus, the institutions are allocating 1.1 million euros in two contracts to prevent the apartments from being illegally occupied as they become uninhabited in the coming months. It is planned to dismantle them so that they become uninhabitablewall them up, equip them with sensors and alarms security and hire surveillance patrols.
The new property will occupy a vacant lot between the building that must be demolished and the police station. Mossos d’Esquadra. It is now used as a parking lot. The façade that faces Venus Street will rise to a maximum of three stories high and will rise to eight on the police station side. The homes will be equipped with two bedrooms double.
Several blocks with more than 300 homes have already been built with public funds more than a decade ago in La Mina to house those evicted from Venus. However, they were barely given the option of inhabiting them. Apart from the few neighbors who were able to pay for the change, the majority of the apartments ended up being awarded to applicants for social housing in 2015, while the project to tear down the property was postponed ‘sine die’. Another 58 homes reserved for transfers of families pending expropriation remain occupied since they were seized in a massive assault in 2017. The La Mina Consortium has only recovered five of the usurped homes.
“Still very green”
The Incasòl remembers in the documentation of the project that, more than “10 years after the initial approval of the expropriation document” of the Venus block, the administration “has yet to definitively approve the expropriation project.” He plan It was redone in April 2023 and awaits ratification shortly. Of the 244 apartments in the property, 180 remain to be expropriated, as well as 11 premises.
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Residents can choose between requesting an address to move to or receiving a compensationfrom 97,450 euros for a three-bedroom apartment bedrooms or 121,514 for those with four rooms. The Generalitat promises that it will guarantee housing to all households that demonstrate vulnerable conditions. Cases in which property titles are lacking remain to be resolved: this occurs in households that did not pay the deeds or the amount to formalize the receipt of an inherited apartment.
The spokesperson for the building’s residents, Paqui Jiménez, states that they do not know when they will be expropriated. “Let’s go super delayed. People who want to leave the neighborhood cannot get paid yet either. “They still have it very green,” he palpates. She adds a warning: “We are worried that someone will be left on the street because they do not turn 23 years old.” census what they ask for”.