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Visesa's resources to be relocated to Gasteiz after Donostia refuses to cede land

The Housing department will promote 270 protected homes in Zabalgana in response to the Mayor of Donostia's decision not to cede municipal land.

Euskadi landscape with green hills and traditional white Basque houses.
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Euskadi landscape with green hills and traditional white Basque houses.

The Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda of the Basque Government, Denis Itxaso, has announced that the resources Visesa had reserved for the promotion of 270 protected homes will be allocated to a development in Gasteiz, specifically in the Zabalgana neighborhood.

Itxaso explained that this is his department's response to the decision of the Mayor of Donostia, who has refused to cede municipal land in Donostia for the promotion of public rental housing. Visesa, the public company for the promotion of protected rental housing, has approved its Programme Contract for 2027, which includes the promotion of 801 protected rental homes.
This document foresees the construction of 301 homes in Gipuzkoa, 276 in Araba, and 224 in Bizkaia. Among the developments Visesa plans to promote are 152 homes in Irita, Zarautz; 45 in Altzate, Errenteria; and 104 regulated homes in the Amaroz neighborhood, Tolosa, in addition to those in Zabalgana and others.
The Minister of Housing emphasized yesterday: "When municipalities cede land, we build." If they do not, he added, the Basque Government will build in another municipality "that does have political will."
Thus, Itxaso reaffirms the statements made after learning of Donostia Etxegintza's decision not to cede two municipal plots in El Infierno to the Basque Government. "We do not lament; we look for alternatives and we find them," stated the socialist minister.
The Housing department has responded in this way to Etxegintza's decision, justified by the Mayor of Donostia. "My idea is to provide a quick response to the housing needs of the middle class in Donostia, and ceding the two plots in El Infierno to the Basque Government would delay achieving this objective," the mayor stated almost two months ago.
Insausti also assured that the plots in El Infierno "were not on the table" during his negotiation process for signing a housing agreement with the Basque Government. "They have never had a budget either," he added.
Just this week, the protocol approved by the Basque Government Council to be signed with the City Council of Donostia for the construction of 5,000 protected rental homes on municipal land was announced. "Precisely to prevent the public land of the City Council of Donostia from being alienated again to private developers, we have drafted a historic protocol," stressed the Minister of Housing yesterday, who believes that promoting regulated rental housing, a model to be promoted in Tolosa (104 homes), benefits the middle class, to whom it is directed.

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