Tui, January 7, 205- The Government’s deputy delegate, Abel Losada, accompanied by the mayor of Tui, Enrique Cabaleiro, visited the building on Bishop Martiñón Street where rehabilitation works are going to be carried out to have three homes for social rent. The works are co-financed by the Government of Spain, through the Ministry of Housing, which signed an agreement with the Xunta de Galicia to finance a total of 24 homes for this purpose distributed by the municipalities of Ribadavia, Ourense, Viveiro, Ferrol and Betanzos, in addition to Tui.
Losada stressed that Tui’s works are financed by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) of the Government of Spain, so they must, in addition to meeting demanding energy efficiency requirements, be destined for social rent for a minimum period of 50 years.
“These things,” stressed the deputy delegate, “it is appropriate to say them, in a friendly but firm way, because often listening to the leaders of the Xunta de Galicia seems that they put a lot of effort into trying to hide the participation of the Government of Spain.” The subdelegate showed his surprise that they are said to be “European funds”, “as implying that these funds fall from the sky and are not the result of the fight of the Spanish Government in the different forums of the European Union to get them, you are all with little or no help, by the way”.
Abel Losada congratulated Enrique Cabaleiro for having promoted the rehabilitation of the building of Obispo Martiñón Street, another initiative that Tui is going to take forward with the European funds distributed by the Government of Spain through the Recovery Plan and from which the City Council itself was also beneficiary for actions such as the reform of the supply square or the new multipurpose cultural center.
In addition, he stressed that, right now, the province of Pontevedra is receiving 18 million euros of state funds for the construction of almost 400 public homes in Pontevedra, Vigo, Mos and Tui and almost 10 million euros for rehabilitation programs of 1,320 homes in neighborhoods of Pontevedra, Vigo, Marín, As Neves, Ponteareas, O Porriño and Mondariz-Balneario. A figure that he considered “very necessary to get Galicia out of the total paralysis of these last 15 years in public housing policies by the Xunta de Galicia, which is the competent Administration”.