Vallo praised his first rental apartment building
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BRATISLAVA He has the first rental apartment building. Author: TASR
BRATISLAVA. It took approximately seven years for the Mayor of Bratislava Matúš Vall He managed to build the first rental apartment building. Vallo’s city flats have been talking about since the first start to office in 2018.
« Meanwhile, there was Covid and a number of other things we didn’t have influenced, » Vallo responds to the question if it is not seven years long. « I think we have done our best because we started at zero. »
The municipality began to build in August 2023 and completed the apartment building in December 2024, since then only small work has been carried out in the area. The construction is now officially approved and tenants will be able to move here in May.
The city’s 103-apartment house has eight floors and stands on Petržalský Muchovo Square. Socially weaker groups, as well as social workers, city police or teachers, will be able to move into the apartments. Half of the apartments will eventually restore.
The approximate amount of the rent should be between EUR 250 and 500, depending on the apartment in which the tenant will live and how high his income will be. There are one- to four-room apartments.
The city apartment building in Petržalka cost 11 million euros, of which the city paid approximately four million, almost three million covered a one percent loan and non -repayable subsidies from the State Housing Development Fund and the rest was paid by the Ministry of Transport.
In the article you can read:
- why the neighbors are not afraid of « socially weaker » tenants,
- What does the apartment look from the inside,
- In what thing the Minister Ráž gave for the truth Vall,
- Whether the municipality has a chance to solve the housing crisis.
Petržalka benevolent
Initially, the city wanted to build on Sosnova and Šustekova Street in Petržalka. The neighbors, however, began to protest by petitions, the old settlers did not want to lose greenery and at the same time feared that the surroundings were too built. The inhabitants of Mucha Square, with which the daily SME was talked, had no problem with the city project.
« But it would certainly want more greenery, » comments Kamila Alexi, who works in the cafe right next to. « But if it is supposed to help young people, it’s definitely fine. »
Students are troubled by the accommodation crisis. The offices are rebuilt into rooms, they also spend the night in workers’ hostels Read
The city also counts with a greener area, the current form of the apartment building and its surroundings is not final. Before the main entrance to the house is a green belt with blooming bulbs, young trees and Bratislava benches, the rear yard is still unfinished.
There will be one more half a smaller apartment building with 50 apartments and a two -storey parking lot, which will be used by the surrounding neighbors.
Four non -residential premises on the ground floor are in progress. Can arise here for example caféfitness center or bistro.
The apartment building is located at the parish tram stop. (Source: SME – Marko Erd)City rental apartments have become an explosive phrase for some Bratislava citizens. This is also aware of the municipality, whose plans have repeatedly encountered prejudice. Neighborhoods of the street near Kríži in Dúbravka and the inhabitants of the Parková site in Ružinov did not want rental apartments to fear that they will attract socially excluded and problematic people.
Barista Alexi is not afraid of something like that. « Clearly, such people need to be helped, because salaries are miserable in Slovakia and the prices are abnormally high. It is necessary to think of those who were not lucky to be born into a better family, » he thinks.
Alexi is not in the locality, but her opinion is also shared by pensioner Eva Simandlová, a resident of the house next to the café where the barista works.
« It doesn’t make me problems if everyone behaves politely, » says Simandl.
The pensioner Emília Jordanová, who lives in prefabs compared to new city apartments, also commented.
« There are few flats, it is good that even socially weaker will have a place to live, » he says. « Especially young families who earn up to 1000 euros do not even have on mortgage. «
According to Simandl, the only problem that the neighborhood had here was the noise and dustiness concerns. Now, according to her, the neighbors are satisfied. Previously on the spot stood an elongated fabricated warehousenow, according to the pensioner, the site looks more cultural.
« At Mucha Square, we have registered some resentment, » says Lenka Antalová Plavuchová, Vice -President for SMEs for rental housing and housing development. « Thanks to communication and participation in the preparatory stages of the project, we managed to solve most of the concerns. »
The city was talking about the public about four years ago. Also because the permitting processes last for so long, the municipality has enough time to familiarize the neighborhood with its plans, Antalová Plavuchová thinks.
The Mayor’s Deputy also worked well with the mayor of Petržalka Ján Hrček (independent). It also notes a constructive approach among other mayors of the Bratislava districts in which the city draws other rental apartments.
The city was paved by sidewalks, planted trees and bulbs and brought Bratislava benches. (Source: SME – Marko Erd)Calf: Seven years is a good time
Rental housing in Bratislava was one of the main themes of the Mayor Vallo in the election campaign in 2018.
« We started and we had no project we could implement, we started from scratch, » says Vallo.
According to him, the apartment building on Muchovo Square is not his first real result in terms of fulfilling the promise with rental apartments. Previously, he set up a city rental agency to help seek housing to socially disadvantaged, and declared rental apartments for the city.
The municipality receives five percent of the floor areas built by investors who want to build in Bratislava. The city receives them for satisfying the developer by changing the zoning plan. In this way the city gets 98 apartments from developers, who are behind the project New Lido.
« Unfortunately, such processes last for eight years in Slovakia, when you are obliged to publicly procure, » said Transport Minister Jozef Ráž. He came to the journalists on Wednesday to introduce the completed project together with the city representatives, and his resort contributed EUR 4.4 million to the apartment building.
« First you have to get to the suitable land, then publicly procure the project documentation, have it draw it, then publicly procure the contractor, » the minister says. « Seven years is still a very good time. »
On the left new city apartment building, on the right typical Petržalský Panelák built under the previous regime. (Source: SME – Marko Erd)Calf considers that its amendment to the Building Act, which entered into force in the spring, will accelerate these processes.
However, the mayors of the eight districts, together with the architect of the capital, described an amendment in an open letter to be harmful, saying it is said to give « green black buildings ». They also turned to the Ombudsman.
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Among the signed were the mayor of the old town Matej Vagač and the mayor of Nové Mesto Matúš Čupka. Both are in the Vall City of Bratislava.
Vallo announced that in the coming years the Bratislava Housing Fund should increase by 400 apartments. In addition to Mucha Square, the city also finalizes Public procurement for the apartment building in Terchovská in Ružinov and territorial proceedings for the project at Žitavská in Vrakun.
According to the Mayor, cooperation with the state is important. « I believe that, as we agreed in this project, we will agree on others, » says Vallo.
Bratislava is at the beginning of the road
A few hundred apartments will not solve the accommodation in the capital, Vallo admitted to journalists. The city already has over a thousand applicants for a rental apartment, in its advisor it has 228 and restituents, ie people to whom the city has to ensure substitute housing is 450.
« It is not the task of self -government to compete with the developer, » says UN expert Elena Szolgayová, who has previously led a housing section at the Ministry of Transport. She also came to look at the completed city project.
From the top floors you can see the Bratislava Castle on the Cathedral of St. Martin. (Source: SME – Marko Erd)« The municipality should provide decent and high -quality housing for those who will not reach it from their income, » the expert continues.
She highlighted Nové Mesto nad Váhom, in which a quarter of apartments have been built since 2000 in the hands of the city. According to Szolgay, Bratislava is at the « beginning of the journey ».
« However, it is very good that the city has a concept that it works with different models, such as construction or buying a finished project, » he says.
According to Szolgayová, the SFRB and the projects it offers to municipalities are helpful.
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« For smaller municipalities, which have trouble finding the means to procure project documentation, we are creating a stack of project documentation, » says Milan Lipka, director of the SFRB. Previously he was the mayor of Rajec.
The Fund also wants to cooperate with other projects with the City City City. Lipka in front of journalists described the apartment building on Mucha Square as a symbol that the fund depends on increasing the available rental housing in Bratislava.
