Project status: Stuck
About two weeks ago we published an article in Hai Pa about an urban renewal project in Abba Hillel Silver and Ratner streets in Neve Shanan (Yezraeliya). The residents of these buildings have been waiting for several years for something to move, but everything is stuck. In the article, we appealed to you, Hai Pa readers, to please share with us if you also live in buildings that have been on the verge of eviction for some time, and nothing is progressing with you either. The result was that the living system here was flooded with appeals from desperate residents. We bring you some of the voices.
Habiva Reich - one building that did not undergo urban renewal
How is it that one building…
I received a call from a resident of the city who said that she has been waiting years for the evacuation of a building that is not happening. So far it makes sense. Until the moment she told me that she was alive Kindly Reich(!) At Ramat Remez - then I already started looking around me for where the hidden camera is hidden... After all, this entire street is undergoing massive urban renewal, to the extent that the residents of the street report that living there has become difficult to say the least, mainly because of the extreme parking problem, but also because of the noise, the huge amounts of dust and the density. Many say that for a long time they feel as if they are living inside a construction site.
It turns out that for the tenants in Habiva Reich 55-61, who have been waiting for eviction for a long time, the situation is very different. In place of their building, a new building with 4 entrances should be built, with each entrance having 3 floors. Several years have passed since the building's tenants signed with the company that is supposed to carry out the process and unanimously confirmed that they are interested in vacating the building, and now they are just waiting for the project to receive all the approvals and get underway. Waiting, and waiting, and waiting...
The frustration in this case is double and multiplied. On the one hand, the disappointment that their project is not coming to fruition and everything is stuck, and on the other hand, for years the tenants have been living in a construction site full of trucks, dirt and noise, suffering from a lack of parking and overcrowding, and all this, when they cannot take solace in the fact that in the end the difficulty will pay off for them, when they live in the building New and handsome.
When they try to find out if the project is expected to start, they do not get clear answers, and currently, according to them, there is no hint of the start of the work.
Stroma Complex - Jores, Shprincek
10 years in Haifa is not much
The tenants of Stroma Street have been waiting 10 years for the eviction. They can cheer up, because in the Neve David neighborhood, for example, there are tenants who have been waiting for 20 years as they fantasize about sitting on a balcony by the sea with coffee in hand and enjoying a beautiful new home.
10 years in Haifa is not particularly impressive. Residents also wait here for longer periods and the real problem is not how long you have already waited, but how long you will continue to wait. "What discourages the tenants in my building, 4 old and crumbling railroad buildings and 200 units," says Zion, "is that 10 years ago, developers came to our building and excited us, that they would demolish our buildings and within two years or so build new, beautiful buildings here.
Maybe it won't happen anymore...
"We were very enthusiastic and so were our neighbors. Anyone who knows our neighborhood and our street knows exactly why we were enthusiastic. The houses here are old and neglected, and they came with very beautiful renderings, and we all signed. It's been 10 years. There are elderly tenants here who no longer have the strength to wait , and they also don't have the power to leave the building for alternative housing, if we come to that.
I still hope it will happen. I would really like to live in a nice house with a balcony. My salary is not high, but I have been working very hard for many years, and it seems to me that I have honestly earned the right to live in a beautiful new house. The problem is that 10 years have already passed and there is no prospect of the project starting, I'm starting to feel that it won't happen anymore and that disappoints me a lot. I'm sure that if someone from the engineering director lived in my old, run-down apartment, he would have already taken care of promoting the project a long time ago."
Harotem Street, Shaar Aliya
15 years ago I had a friend who lived on Harotem Street in her grandmother's apartment. I would come to her in the evenings and be amazed by the proximity to the sea. And really, when you look at the visualizations of Harotem Street, you just want to pack a suitcase and come live in a new apartment with a balcony to the sea. My friend's apartment was small and was worth 200,000 NIS. Today it is no longer possible to find apartments at this price on Harotem Street, because the prices on the street embody the potential of each of the apartments.
And yet, years pass, and nothing happens. The tenants are very frustrated and don't understand why they don't start. The problem is with the plans that the municipality has prepared for each of the neighborhoods, according to the CEO of Next Urban Yossi Cohen, is that they are not financially feasible, therefore we need to enter into negotiations with the municipality regarding each of the complexes. The result is that there are no cranes in our city: no construction and no urban renewal What's up? Frustrated residents who are waiting to enjoy a nice apartment in a new building in an area that has undergone a facelift. As you already understood - it's not happening.
The situation is especially disappointing in light of the promises of urban renewal in the coastal neighborhoods that came with the election of a new leadership in the city, but in practice, despite all the plans that were planned for many hours, things on the ground remain unchanged.
20 Oren St. in the new Romme
"Don't know why or when...
"When they came to sign us, there was a really cheerful atmosphere in the building," says Ruth, "Whoever signed us created the impression that we were about to start. This was during the time of the previous mayor, Yona Yahav. We thought it would be a matter of weeks, maybe months, until we start.
A few years have passed since then. I have someone's phone number, from time to time I ask her where it is. No one knows when all the approvals will be in place and it will be possible to start construction. When I read the article about the buildings on Abba Hillel Silver Street, I felt that this was exactly our story. We wait and wait and don't even know why our project is delayed, or until when. It's really discouraging. It is important to say that as far as we are concerned, we did everything and everyone here signed. Still, nothing happens."
The municipality said in response:
The municipality of Haifa sees great importance in promoting urban renewal in the city, and it is the leading city in Israel according to the data of the Governmental Authority for Urban Renewal, in the number of housing units included in master and outline plans for urban renewal with approximately 82,000 units.
Currently, there are 5 complexes under construction for the evacuation of construction and condensation, which include about 3000 units.
The municipality is promoting 20 detailed claims for urban renewal, including about 11,000 units.
In addition, about 120 entrepreneurial proposals for construction evacuation complexes were submitted to the Engineering Administration, including about 42,000 units. All proposals and plans are promoted according to municipal procedure for promoting a proposal for construction evacuation in an entrepreneurial way, according to their compatibility with the neighborhood master plans, the consent of the apartment owners, and subject to the instructions the law
The tenants on the ridge are struggling to stop the construction projects that are destroying the fabric of the neighborhoods, while in the weaker coastal neighborhoods tenants are begging for the realization of the eviction-construction that was promised to them, some with agreements already signed. So what is the conclusion? Simple and clear: the developers build where there is more money. And the municipality encourages, And the residents of Haifa are divided into those for whom the mergers destroy every good part of their neighborhood - and those who live in crumbling train neighborhoods and yearn for eviction-construction. The opposite is the opposite. So let the developers stop whining and build where it's really necessary, and not destroy existing neighborhoods with ugly and unnecessary towers. And I didn't say it already, Stop talking and censoring me!
And I will add another shocking figure. From a study conducted on the roof agreements, Kahlon and Hotmail, massive marketing of agricultural land for construction prevented the eviction (urban renewal) of 40,000 housing units in the years 2015-2020 = prevented the renewal of 1500 railroad housing!!
The roof agreements if realized in full = 160 thousand apartments and prevent urban renewal of 6000 crumbling housing buildings 95% of which are outside the Dan block due to the national demand map. Do you understand what crazy damage Kahalon and the Treasury have caused to hundreds of thousands of Israelis?! Talking about collapsing buildings - interview Mr. Kahlon.. Oh, he runs away from microphones.
You will understand that instead of the proper reward A. B. C. that the Ministry of Finance is pushing, it would have been possible to rebuild most of Kiryat Eliezer, Neve David and Shaar Aliyah as luxury neighborhoods. This will not happen because of the Ministry of Finance and the umbrella agreements.
The municipality cannot be neutralized. It is the state's fault for pressuring Israel to approve huge neighborhoods on new land (remember Kahlon and the roof agreements?). This is a double evil: you also create neighborhoods on open and mostly agricultural land on the outskirts of the city and there is no public transportation, so you create more suburban neighborhoods far from the city center and also prevent urban renewal Remember Kahlon smiling and telling you how the state threw away tens of billions of shekels and enriched contractors in unnecessary neighborhoods and basically condemned the fate of a million Israelis to stay in crumbling housing because the young people and investors bought new apartments (price per resident) and the state actually caused a halt in the construction of all the peripheral cities where it financed agreements Roof. The roof agreements = 95% new apartments and only under pressure from certain mayors = 5% financing of urban renewal (actually no, his goal from the beginning was to enrich his friends, many of whom are contractors by selling land cheaply) stuck the urban renewal in the periphery for at least 10 years. 0 apartment towers in Kiryat Gat, 40 apartment towers in Kiryat Bialik, and so on in the whole country Destroy Israel, internalize it. And for that he receives praise and jobs.
You need to hire a lawyer to neutralize the municipality and its responsibility!
And initiate contact with a contractor after a tender!
All the so-called "urban renewal" projects, which actually mean building tall towers, which are coffins for people, and completely destroy neighborhoods in the city - I wish they would never progress, and vice versa, they would be canceled.
And kudos to the reporter Michal, whom we sometimes criticize in various articles, consistent coverage of the issue of failure in the whole issue of urban renewal in Haifa, a renewal in which practically nothing happens, in addition, the outrageous demand of the municipality to oblige tenants in old buildings, who are so poor and weak, to renovate and strengthen buildings instead of confirming and promote building permits and renovations in their building. We want to ask the system to continue to cover the issue even though the pace of the investigations are progressing in the Haifa Municipality until. Which renewal program here will get the permit, this young reporter will surely be retired by now..
Okay, the article is flawed by a basic lack of understanding of the way in which Haifa frustrates and damages Pinoy Binoy initiatives.
These initiatives are carried out when the city is in demand to live in, as the land values are high, and it pays for the developer to vacate old buildings and build new ones in their place. It happens in Carmel at Tama 38 all the time. It even happens here and there in a David building or an exodus from Europe, but only with a very high ratio of new to old apartments (1:5). Otherwise it's simply not worth it and the municipality has nothing to do. The eviction of Berel Katznelson's Binoy Pershkovsky was also delayed for 7 years and was almost canceled due to a low Binoy eviction ratio until they added 100 apartments and raised over 1:4.
The municipality can above all not interfere. To approve a serious attitude that would beckon to the contractors and not to build large new neighborhoods that would beckon the contractors to buy land there and build there instead of building and evacuating. Each of us, if we were a big developer, would prefer to buy land from the state empty and not deal with the "headache" of tenants who vacate and have to return. That's why it has to really pay off, for it to be implemented.
What is the municipality of Haifa doing, and also the municipality of Tirat Carmel?
are clearly and seriously interfering with the eviction of construction, by massive marketing of new land that the contractors buy instead of vacating housing. According to a cautious estimate, the Naot Peres neighborhood prevented the eviction of about 400-300 old apartments in 10 housing buildings in Haifa.
Even neighborhoods like Givat Zemer and earlier Ramat Hanasi, take the demand from existing neighborhoods to new neighborhoods.
In the Carmel Castle the story is even more serious. Not a single building evacuation was carried out there, and it is not difficult to guess why. All the big demands drain only to the Gali Carmel neighborhood and the new rowers. Dozens of signs for housing clearance projects are already crumbling after being stuck
Ten years ago, but then Gali Carmel came and devoured the cards.
And what will happen in Haifa?
Exactly the same unfortunately for the interviewees in the article. Haifa finishes approving the 2nd and 3rd prizes. and the addition of a thousand apartments to Naot Peres A above the existing neighborhood. and the addition of thousands of additional apartments in Givat Aizim (Ramat Goral) and the slopes of Harofeh. In short, the municipality of Haifa guarantees with its own hands that in the next decade, most of its construction evacuation plans will simply not come to fruition.
Who is the municipality? These officials are supposed to serve the residents, not screw them over. Why hasn't a candidate for mayor stood up who talks about real change and cleans the whole municipality of the officials who screw everything up, of the bureaucracy and corruption?
Kudos to Hai-Fa for addressing the readers' comments and raising the plight of the city's residents and ours in the Stroma complex
Let none of the city managers claim that they did not know, during a disaster the personal responsibility will weigh on their conscience for the rest of their lives.
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All of Haifa is sitting on the antlers of the deer when you will realize it is not a pity for your nerves
There are also old buildings on Amal and Tzahal Street, strange that in the same area they built new apartments instead of a stadium and did not continue another 500 meters
"Shafia is leading with the number of construction plans in urban renewal.." The time has come once and for all to put an end to this outraged reaction, how many construction permits were given in the coastal neighborhoods in relation to the permit applications? Claims not progressing, some tenants in Kiryat Eliezer, Sha'ar Alia, in Shaprintzak, in Neve David are waiting Tens (!) of years for renewal, tenants in a lot of buildings are signed with a majority of legal signatures, the developers are eager to start building, in my opinion, even with lower multipliers than before because the price per meter has risen a lot in these areas, and yet with the exception of a few buildings that can be counted on one hand and that have received a permit (and the municipality does Nice public relations, by the way) the beach neighborhoods have remained in their misery for decades, moreover, the builders hired by the municipality said in their voice in the master plan at the beginning of the year that it would not be possible to build according to the outlines that the developers came up with with the tenants, so okay, let's approve plans with lower multiples...otherwise Why so many years waiting for the master plan?? What will be done during all the years that the tenants and developers are waiting? The feeling is that in each term in the municipality they only take time and transfer the plans to the next term, this was the case during the Yahav period, this is how it continues with Mrs. Kalish.. and the main thing is that the Haifa municipality has an automatic response to the press: "In Haifa, the most plans for urban renewal in the country are promoted.." We are residents of one of the neighborhoods The beach has long been disbelieving all these statements and reactions of the municipality.
What is happening with the evacuation of construction in Neve David?
Soon, the project of clearing and building the cemetery (cemetery) with about 7,000 new and fresh burial places, from the creator of Azorim and the municipality of Haifa, is about to start. According to the rate of progress, it seems that it will take several more years until the building permits for phase one are issued. Phases B and C are not so important since they do not contain the same huge profit of about half a billion NIS intended for the right people from the sale of the burial plots. In any case, a horrifying density defined by the word 'slams' by the mayor and the professionals (including Prof. Irit Zaraf-Netanyahu, who is in charge of preparing the guiding master plan for the 4 coastal neighborhoods, including Neve David - HF/2350 - the discussion at the local committee's plenary session of March 9.3.2021, 1,212) is the characteristic of this plan (areas - 2350 units). The mayor has good will, as it came up in the 9.3.2021 plan, in the discussion of March XNUMX, XNUMX, except that since it seems that this is against the interests of entrepreneurs close to the city's governmental success (the same wise bureaucracy that has been managing the corrupt planning chaos in the city of Haifa in recent decades - a catastrophe of planning managed according to corrupt and irrelevant standards), then the good will of the mayor does not progress and does not come to fruition, just as is the case in the rest of the city where the mayor preferred to bow to the rule of the wise bureaucracy - and in order to put the honorable mayor in her place - in fact the bracket of the microphones that activates her - she is actually suspended and excluded from the management of the city. In the current situation, there is no optimistic forecast for the renewed cemetery neighborhood also known as Neve David.