New €70,000 Housing Aid Aims To Bring Denia’s 5,000 Empty Homes Back To Life

Denia Town Hall has announced a caller statement of grants aimed astatine encouraging owners of quiet properties to renovate and rent them retired for residential use. The initiative, presented by Housing Councillor Rafa Carrió and Territory Councillor Maria Josep Ripoll, covers homes successful Denia, La Xara and Jesús Pobre, and seeks to amended entree to lodging while reactivating nan town’s ample banal of vacant properties.

A full of €70,000 has been allocated to this programme successful nan 2025 municipal budget. Depending connected family income, applicants whitethorn person up to €7,000 (for yearly incomes beneath €40,000) aliases a maximum of €5,100 (for those earning €40,000 aliases more).

“This is simply a aviator task that we will accommodate arsenic needed. It’s fundamentally designed to support backstage homeowners pinch vacant residential properties to transportation retired renewal and betterment works, and past rent them retired for a minimum play of 5 years,” explained Ripoll.

Only 10 time to request

The afloat position of nan strategy will beryllium published successful nan Official Gazette of nan Province of Alicante successful November. From nan time aft publication, applicants will person 10 almanac days to taxable their requests. Renovation useful must beryllium completed by 30 April 2026, and by that date, homeowners must besides taxable nan applicable building licence, rental contract, impervious of expenses, and different archiving specified successful nan regulations.

According to information provided by Carrió, location are presently much than 5,000 quiet homes wrong nan municipality. Denia Town Hall is moving to bring these properties backmost onto nan semipermanent rental marketplace — excluding tourer rentals.

New tourer rental licences suspended

The councillors reminded residents that Denia has suspended nan issuing of caller tourer rental licences wrong nan municipality area for nan 2nd consecutive year. The assembly is besides processing a regulatory ordinance for rental licences aimed astatine protecting nan town’s astir susceptible neighbourhoods.

Denia has doubly requested to beryllium declared a “stressed lodging area” by nan Valencian location government, without receiving immoderate consequence truthful far. Ripoll noted that specified a nickname would let nan assembly to modulate and power rental prices, ensuring that nan grants introduced coming would thief support affordable rents.

Finally, nan municipal government’s committedness to expanding nationalist lodging is reflected successful nan town’s Structural General Plan, which designates onshore for this purpose. “Up to 40 per cent of nan homes successful caller developments will beryllium allocated arsenic nationalist housing,” Ripoll confirmed.