Calpe Town Council has published on the State procurement platform the tender for the drafting of the Calpe Housing Plan, with a budget of €48,400 and a completion period of seven months.
According to the documentation, the purpose of the contract is to draft a Municipal Housing Plan that will study the housing situation in the municipality of Calpe, with special attention to the analysis of the population and residential demand, the municipality's housing stock, the housing supply and market, and the impact of territorial and urban planning on the residential sector. In addition, the plan must consider the study of municipal resources and instruments - for example, subsidies, acquisition of housing by the local administration, etc. - at the service of housing policies. The Plan will also propose a suitably scheduled action programme.
The ultimate goal is to address one of the most pressing problems in the municipality: the lack of housing. To this end, an external specialist firm has been hired to draft the Municipal Housing Plan, a document that will study the housing situation in the town and propose a programme of actions to address the problems identified in the assessment.
The aim of this initiative is to facilitate access to decent housing for citizens. The lack of housing in Calpe has become a structural problem in the municipality, aggravated by the increase in tourist accommodation and prices, compounded by the fact that the municipality has a limited and highly urbanised territory. The situation has led to sectors such as tourism being unable to find workers due to a lack of affordable housing.
This strategic plan will be a roadmap with short-, medium- and long-term measures and is intended to have a cross-cutting approach, i.e. urban, social and economic, and to be adapted to the characteristics of the municipality.
In this regard, the study of the housing situation provided for in the plan should include an analysis of the population and the housing needs of families residing in Calpe, especially those used as primary residences, with a specific section on individuals and groups at risk of social and residential exclusion, as well as on the situation regarding evictions. Likewise, an analysis of the housing stock in the municipality will be carried out, reflecting its state of repair, tenure (rental, ownership, transfer of use, etc.), as well as empty or disused dwellings and second homes. Inadequate housing and substandard housing will also be included, and an analysis of the housing market and its supply (volume, regimes, prices, type and location, among other parameters) will be carried out. Special consideration will be given to the situation of social housing.
The proposals for action will include a report justifying and describing the set of actions planned and their coordination with other social, economic and environmental strategies. The Plan must include an economic and financial assessment with a description of the material resources available to the municipality to implement the Action Programme and must define the mechanisms for the implementation, development, monitoring and evaluation of the Plan.
With all this, strategies will be established to carry out an action programme aimed at achieving access to decent and adequate housing for all citizens. The Councillor for Housing, Mireia Ripoll, has stated that "the Calpe Town Council is pleased to announce that the service for drafting the Strategic Housing Plan for our town is now available on the contracting platform. This plan stems from an urgent need to find effective mechanisms to improve access to permanent housing in Calpe. We know that it is a major challenge for many families to find a home to live in all year round, which is why we are committed to a cross-cutting approach that not only seeks urban planning solutions, but also includes social measures and the promotion of long-term rentals so that there are more homes available to buy or rent all year round".