Urban renewal panel in the real estate city of the Construction Center/Idan Gross
The Israel Construction Center Conference - Real Estate City, the 23rd conference of the Israel Construction Center, is being held in Eilat for the 23rd year. As part of the conference, a session was held that dealt with the issue of urban renewal as a national task in light of the war.
Elazar Bamberger, CEO of the Governmental Authority for Urban Renewal , said: "The last year was very challenging, which started with the increase in the interest rate and the market which changed dramatically from January - April, there was a local election on the horizon and then the war happened that accompanies us until the end of the year and beyond. It is a challenging year in producing active urban renewal activity. Nevertheless, And relative to these circumstances, the year 2023 ended with not bad data at all. Succeeding in producing over 40,000 approved housing units, this is beyond the strategic government plan for housing according to which they should reach 31,000. Another encouraging figure - over 9,000 apartments received permits - just in the field of eviction Construction."
Regarding the promotion of the issue in the periphery, he said: "The periphery remained out of the game and we realized that the reality needed to be changed. We held an inter-ministerial committee with the participation of all the relevant parties - and we created a government work plan that deals with bringing urban renewal to the periphery - this will not happen through market forces and this requires government intervention in the subsidization of evacuation and construction complexes which are not economic. It is difficult to produce complexes that produce a minimal entrepreneurial profit, therefore an intervention is required that will encourage entrepreneurs to come through a grant."
Haim Broida/Idan Gross
Ra'anana Mayor Haim Broida: "Ra'anana is one of the leading cities in urban renewal and I see it as a necessary thing. Today it is not only social but security. We have 4,000 units without dimensions and this is significant as the rear has now become the front. We have a momentum of development On the subject of urban renewal, we received a grant from the state. There is a dissonance between the fact that you hear that Ra'anana is the richest city in the world, which is not true, and there are places where there were old and shabby houses that no longer exist today, and we are bringing about Ra'anana being one front.
"I was a population commander in command The home front and I know what happens in a magnitude 5.6 earthquake. We will see buildings that will collapse like a house of cards, and my fear is that as authorities we will face it alone. I do not rely on the government. Today the heads of the authorities are completely independent. I build my power on our units - the rescue units, the standby forces After all, Rami is the largest construction company in Israel and it has caused a very serious social problem in Israel by causing prices to rise over the years.
Mayors and entrepreneurs can reach agreements.
We reach out, but there are entrepreneurs who jump over the navel and offer proposals that are not in proportion to the city they are building in."
Roni Baric, the honorary president of the Association of Contractors Building the Land, referred to the bureaucracy of the authorities: "It's a long story and every city has its own head.
In Givataim, for example, it took me several years to reach the committee.
All the regulation and difficulties we have in urban renewal.
What is holding us back and costs a lot of money is the local authority.
There are no people and no workers and this is holding us back.
You need to be open-minded and get out of the box, because under a ten-story building there is no financial feasibility for an entrepreneur.
Above that, the project may already be paying off for him.
So you have to think about whether it is better to approve two more floors or leave residents in the old buildings?
It all depends on the authority.
If the authority doesn't want renewal, there won't be."
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