Millions in renting an unusable treatment home

The state has paid for six million krónur to rent unused housing under a treatment home that has not yet opened. In addition, the state pays 1.2 million a month for the housing found instead.

This was stated in RÚV's evening news tonight, but the Blönduhlíð treatment center in Mosfellsbær has not yet been put into operation – and it is uncertain whether there will be a treatment home ever – despite the fact that former Minister of Children's Minister Ásmundur Einar Daðason has opened the novel.

The premises, which stands at Skálatún in Mosfellsbær, do not meet the requirements for fire prevention and major changes need to be undertaken if so. Also, an operating license does not exist and the house is still empty.

Could have canceled the contract but did not

As mbl.is reported in February, the Children's and Family Agency pays 750 thousand ISK for rent in Blönduhlíð, although there is no operation in the house. On top of that, she pays 1.2 million in rent per aluminum at Vogur, where the business has been entered. The remedy at Vogi ​​is now under the name Blönduhlíð.

RÚV reported this evening that in the lease agreement for Blönduhlíð, the contract may be canceled if the first six months of the lease is revealed that the house is not qualified for children for reasons that are not written on the lessee. It was not done and now that deadline has passed. Furthermore, the lessee says that the condition of the house was fully accepted.

It was stated that the Construction Agency – State property did not have access to the lease as usual, « due to emergency conditions in housing treatment homes ». Rather, a lease has been made at Blönduhlíð without the involvement of the Construction Agency, as it considered it could take a short time to change it into a treatment home.

Blönduhlíð, however, will soon be used but not on behalf of the Children's and Family Center and obviously not as a treatment home, according to RÚV.