The councilman of Social Welfare, Juan Carrion Tudela, accompanied by technical Municipal Immigration Service, presented the "Support and social mediation for Access to Housing", which aims to encourage rental housing occupation among the population most disadvantaged of the town.
This initiative, promoted jointly by the Department of Social Welfare and Housing, under a grant from the Ministry of Social Policy, Women and immigration, provides a range of services to both landlords and tenants to promote the occupation of homes for rent and to respond to the needs of housing for local residents with fewer resources.
The free services aimed at tenants consist of providing information and advice on available housing and inclusion in the housing stock.
Also, free service targeted at owners will provide assistance in finding tenants, information and advice on housing and inclusion in the rental housing stock.
The mayor noted that in this way goes a step further with the city's neediest people, and that "housing is one of the elements that define the social situation of individuals and facilitates or impedes their successful integration into society" .
Thus, he stressed that "access to housing with employment status, is one of the worst problems of society and therefore encourage people to have decent housing is one of the most important policy areas for full integration of these people. "
Furthermore, as reported by the mayor, this service will appose up a resource, which will be the acquisition of rental housing for people who are at risk, so they can occupy it temporarily.
This temporary employment will be monitored by social workers of the Department of Social Welfare, who will conduct training activities are geared to these people so they can get out of that situation as soon as possible.
