La Cerdanya draws up a study on empty homes to open them to first residents

The Cerdanya Regional Council with its technical team and those of the seventeen town councils of the local demarcation have activated the drafting of a study on the empty homes that exist in each town in order, in the medium term future, to promote their recovery and offer them to young people and residents of the territory. This was announced by the president of the Council, Isidre Chia, during a conference on housing in the Pyrenees in Martinet.

The new study must be completed in the next two months so that the Council itself and the local councils of the region can set the strategy for recovering the homes with the owners and as soon as possible they can be incorporated into the real estate market. The study also includes the lands that are susceptible in each municipality to make official housing as well as an x-ray of the stock of protected apartments that exist in the region, determining those that are occupied and those that are not. Chia has pointed out that the study will stipulate which homes there are in each town, both closed and in a state of ruin, to establish the work plan in each case “we want to make an assessment in terms of the region to know where we have to face the future; the study has already begun and I estimate that in the first quarter of 2014 we will have it completed; I think that as a region what we want is to move forward with this project, we are very aware of the problems that we have today with our youth”.