Andorra's Public Housing Rollout Exposes Hidden Social Vulnerability
Despite government denials of social degradation, new emergency housing units in Ribasol Ski Park reveal growing poverty and exclusion risks in.
Key Points
- New flats in Ribasol Ski Park reserved for emergency cases like poverty and exclusion.
- Government subsidizes rents for low-income residents, confirming poverty risks.
- Official narrative downplays vulnerability despite structural housing policy.
- Institut Nacional de l'Habitatge manages expanding public housing park.
The Andorran government has maintained throughout the current legislative term that the country faces no significant social degradation or rise in vulnerability. Yet the rollout of the public housing park challenges this narrative.
New flats incorporated into Ribasol Ski Park, promoted by the government at the initiative of Conxita Marsol, include units reserved for emergency residential situations. This allocation highlights pressing social needs, acknowledging families struggling to make ends meet, individuals at risk of exclusion, those with addictions, or people facing abandonment who require public support.
By assuming part of the rental costs when incomes fall short, the administration confirms that poverty risk is a growing reality, despite official messaging that downplays it. Denying the existence of vulnerable groups does little to address the issue.
The management of the public housing park by the Institut Nacional de l'Habitatge (INH) underscores that social housing has become a structural policy in Andorra.
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