Calcalist, Dotan Levi, 27.02.2020
Amigur, a subsidiary of the Jewish Agency, is currently promoting projects to the elderly in the scope of approximately 2,650 residential units, and an expression of the course of the month in which the building permit was made and the beginning of the work to expand the Golden Age house in Herzliya Pituach, so it was known to Calcalist. The course was two years after the Tel Aviv planning and Building Committee approved the plan to establish another building in Beit Shirin.
In this program, many objections have been submitted by residents of the environment – people who live nearby, the residents of the existing compound, who were primarily afraid of disrupting their lives during the construction stage, and by the Herzliya municipality, who raised arguments about the expected parking loads. A total of 150 objections were submitted to the program, and these were rejected by the District Planning and Building Committee.
The project is located near the sea, in one of the most expensive places in the country. Shirin's house covers an area of 4.5 dunams, owned by the Jewish Agency, between the streets of Wingate and the Jewish state. 72 housing units are currently being held for the elderly who meet the criteria of public housing (residents who do not have housing, and live on National insurance benefits and the guarantee of income only), and are now added 111 housing units in a new five-story building, as well as the addition of one floor to the existing building. In total, the site will include 183 residential units. The construction cost is about 64 million shekels.
The planning authorities have tightened in the short time required to obtain a building permit, but a period of two years does not exceed the reasonable time to exclude such construction permits in Herzliya. One of the obstacles on the way to the approval was an argument regarding the improvement of the healer. Although it is a structure that is exempt from the betterment due to its public being operated as non-profit and engages in the activities of welfare and Charity, the municipality of Herzliya demanded to collect a surcharge, and only after the intervention of the Chairman of the housing staff Zeev Bielski and the Housing Minister Yifat Basha Bitton, returned by the municipality of its madrigal.
In Israel there is a serious shortage of housing units for the elderly, and there is a waiting list of about 24 thousand elderly people without a housing solution, with new immigrants and Holocaust survivors. In light of this, it was decided to add and expand the golden Age houses on the land of the Jewish Agency. The total cost of the move is estimated at NIS 1.35 billion, including 12 projects across the country to include 2,650 residential units.
1,000 housing units are currently under construction in Tel Aviv, Ashkelon, Be'er Sheva and Ashdod, and the year is expected to start building more than 800 residential units in Netanya and Tel Aviv. Until the end of 2022, the construction of the remaining projects will be included as 865 residential units.
The funding will come from three sources: NIS 500 million to the state; 500 million additional shekels will be included as a loan from Harel-finance that the Jewish Agency will take, a loan returned from the rental fee, which is about 1,500 shekels per tenant per month; And 350 million shekels were received from donations raised by the Jewish Agency.
Amigur, a subsidiary of the Jewish Agency, was founded in 1972 following the Jewish Agency's decision to convey the management of the assets that were established or purchased from the monetary funds. The company operates in assets owned by the agency located between Mitzpe Ramon in the south to Nahariya in the north, and is considered a leader in Israel in the field of gold and second-largest housing in the field of public housing.
The company currently operates about 20,000 residential units, with approximately 11 thousand in public housing populated by entitled to the Ministry of Construction and housing. In addition, she manages 6,000 housing units in 57 golden Age houses, and they live around 7,000 elderly people, most of them new immigrants. The rest of the housing units are located in relief departments, absorption centres, evacuated sites and student dormitories.
Today, some 90 percent of the occupants of the elderly are immigrants from the former Soviet Union and many of them survivors of the Holocaust. Two-thirds of the apartments in the Golden Age house are single apartments, and one-third of the apartments are a couple. Most of the apartments are in an area of 40-50 sqm.