RENTAL SCHEME
Navarre Social Housing
PRESENTATION
General data since inception
OBJECTIVES
The major challenges to which it provides a response
FINANCING
Collaboration between different entities
AXES
The bases that articulate it
PRESENTATION
The NSH was promoted in 2016 by the Government of Navarra through the company Navarra de Suelo y Vivienda, S.A.U (NASUVINSA, SAU), the public entity responsible for the planning and execution of the two phases of the plan.
Navarre Social Housing
The NSH responds to the commitment of the public authorities to favor access by the most disadvantaged population to quality housing at affordable prices, as a basic social right.
It contemplates the construction of 1,353 subsidized housing units (VPO), 591 corresponding to the first phase, of which 473 (80%) have already been completed and most of them have been handed over to the tenants, and the remaining 118 VPOs are at an advanced stage of execution for completion in the first months of 2025.
The second phase includes another 762 VPOs, of which 163 are already under construction or will begin construction in the first quarter of 2025.
The NSH plan involves the mobilization of considerable productive investment, which favors social integration through access to housing, with a firm commitment to environmental protection.
In addition to energy savings and the reduction of CO2 emissions, construction with EECN-nZEB parameters offers an important economic return in terms of job creation and reactivation of innovation in the construction sector in Navarra.
Specifically, the NSH public rental plan foresees the creation of a significant number of direct jobs on an ongoing basis during its implementation period. In addition, the commitment to the construction of nearly zero consumption buildings is favoring the training of specialized professionals, including architects and engineers, to set the guidelines and certify the projects and the execution of works following these parameters.
OBJECTIVES
PARADIGM SHIFT
This public initiative responds to the paradigm shift introduced in 2015 by the Government of Navarra in its housing policies, in response to its programmatic commitment to expand the public subsidized housing stock in order to respond to the growing social demand for rental housing.
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT
The NSH also pursues the development of its own construction model that responds to the new standards based on passive housing and environmental commitment and in favor of sustainable energy sources.
AGENDA 2030
Therefore, it aims to contribute to the sustainable development objectives defined in the UN Agenda 2030 and in the European Green Deal / The European Green Deal to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
ECCN – nZEB
The implementation of Nearly Zero Energy Consumption Buildings is fully justified for competitive reasons in the building sector or environmental reasons due to the need to address the adaptation to climate change and energy transition, but above all it is a social commitment to make energy saving and the highest demand in building quality a citizen’s right.
FINANCING
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK (EIB), MRR, GOVERNMENT OF NAVARRA AND NASUVINSA
The Navarra Social Housing rental plan is co-financed by the Government of Navarra and Nasuvinsa, as well as by the European Investment Bank (EIB), European MRR funds and through land from the Banco Foral de Suelo Público and transfer agreements with local councils.
The first agreement between the EIB and the Government of Navarre was signed on September 15, 2017, in a public act presided over by the then President of Navarra, Uxue Barkos, and the Vice-President of the European entity, Román Escolano.
This is an innovative public rental development operation that has few precedents in Europe – specifically in cities such as Barcelona, Amsterdam, Dublin and Lisbon – and is supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) of the Juncker Plan.
MRR FUNDS
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda – MITMA finances with 12.7 million euros from the European NextGeneratioNEU funds (within the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism – MRR) the construction of subsidized housing for rent in Navarra.
By virtue of the agreement signed with the Autonomous Community of Navarre, these homes co-financed with MRR funds are located in Pamplona and its metropolitan area (192); Tudela (27), Alsasua/Altsasu (21); Sangüesa (20); Estella-Lizarra (18), Bera (8) and Garralda (4).
PLAN AXES
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
The NSH responds to the public need to introduce sustainable urban planning criteria in public buildings, both in land use and in the application of innovative energy efficiency parameters.
The Government of Navarre frames this rental plan within its general housing policy, which includes other measures and aid aimed at promoting housing rehabilitation policies, linked to energy efficiency and the urban and social regeneration of aging neighborhoods.
It responds to the public commitment in favor of strategies for the recovery of the consolidated city, as key tools in the development of a more social and sustainable urbanism.
In this regard, it should be noted that the NSH plan was a pioneer in complying with EU Directive 2010/31, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB), even before it became mandatory as of 2020.
RENEWABLE FUELS
The construction of EECN-(nZEB) buildings is based on architectural factors such as special insulation, reduction of thermal bridges or air tightness, with the aim of obtaining a substantial reduction in the level of energy consumption inside the home, and in the volume of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere that cause the climate emergency.
Specifically, the buildings have green energy sources, community boilers powered by locally sourced forest chip biomass, as a central source of energy to supply homes with heating and domestic hot water.
The commitment to biomass favors a new energy model that is not dependent on fossil fuels, as well as the development of the forestry industrial fabric in rural areas.
SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION
Residential projects under the NSH plan encourage the use of sustainable and industrialized materials such as wood as a structural element, thus reducing the carbon footprint of the building process.
The plan promotes the use of wood in construction through innovative architectural projects in the construction of buildings with a favorable effect on territorial rebalancing and the rural environment.
INCLUSIVE CONSTRUCTION
The NSH plan values the principle of universal accessibility in the design of its residential developments, based on respect for the fundamental right of all people to comfortable and safe access to and use of common spaces and facilities.
Full accessibility guarantees that any person can access a space or building and make full use of it.
NAVARRA BAUHAUS
The New Bauhaus is an initiative created to promote the architectural dimension and its value in improving the quality of life of towns and cities by focusing on the concept of quality and the “culture of the built environment”.
The New European Bauhaus (NBE) initiative was presented by the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, in the State of the Union speech of September 2020, as a determined action to improve the lives of citizens. This initiative is an appeal to all European citizens to reflect on how the spaces in which we live should be. This European project shows that culture is a common link between the different European countries. The NBE is the seed of a project full of hope that has begun in Europe, but its momentum is unstoppable and wants to spread to the rest of the world.
Nasuvinsa has been an official partner of this initiative since July 2021 and acts as promoter, community manager, sounding board and interlocutor throughout the initiative, particularly in Navarra.
The developments of the Navarra Social Housing plan are aligned with the three fundamental principles of the New European Bauhaus: sustainability, inclusion and aesthetics.
AGENDA 2030: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)
The Government of Navarra and public institutions have adhered to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and are aligning their social, economic and environmental policies with the SDGs, their targets and indicators.
In order to support and disseminate the monitoring of progress in achieving the SDGs and their targets in Navarra, a viewer has been built monitor the evolution of each indicator of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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