Only 344 apartments began to be built in Haifa in the first three quarters of 2021
From the analysis of the CBS data carried out by the Haifa District Contractors Organization, it appears that in the city of Haifa, 344 new apartments began to be built in the first three quarters of 2021. The stagnation in construction has been going on for several years. In the entire year of 2020, only 475 apartments began to be built in Haifa.
Segmenting by the size of the apartments, it can be seen that the beginnings of construction were mainly concentrated on apartments with 4-5 rooms:
208 4-room apartments, 116 5-room apartments, 15 6-room apartments and 5 2-room apartments.
They did not start building 3-room apartments or XNUMX-room apartments at all.
Comparison between the settlements
In the entire Haifa district, 4,618 new apartments began to be built since the beginning of the year, compared to 4,812 in 2020 as a whole. In Or Akiva, for comparison, which is also one of the cities of the Haifa district, 1,691 new apartments began to be built in the first three quarters of the year, almost 5 times more than the construction starts in the city of Haifa, but the amount of population in Haifa is 15 times greater than that of Or Akiva.
Haim Feiglin, Chairman of the Haifa District Contractors Association, He said to me here:
The decline in construction starts in the city of Haifa continues even in the third quarter of the year after a decline in all of 2020. 344 apartments in 3 quarters is an extremely small amount for the third largest city in Israel with almost 300 thousand inhabitants, a drop in the ocean. A poor real estate and social atmosphere was created in the city, when many entrepreneurs also stopped seeing Haifa as an investment destination in light of the situation in the city, a situation that also leads to low apartment prices that lag behind the rest of the country and even the Haifa district itself. Along with the dwindling supply of apartments in Haifa, the demand is also going down And small due to residents leaving the city, especially young people, and the entire market is faltering.
How much dirt on the city of Haifa, only bad things are written, what is the purpose? Shooting ourselves in the foot?
Good, very good. The residents will finally gain some peace.
And you rich people who finance these articles, because they are the ones who lose from the decline in construction starts, can sit quietly
As usual, the contractors are trying to make additional capital against the backdrop of the deteriorating state of the city. You can calm down - it's not because of you that no construction starts!
And it is quite clear that there will be a lack of construction starts in a city without demand and with unjustified housing prices, a city that does not attract any families to it. On the contrary, the city is still fleeing families from it. I'm just surprised that it's felt in the beginnings of construction only now...
Perhaps this will finally stop the unplanned construction of the city for over a decade (city = meaning Carmel. The only place where there is construction), when every contractor actually becomes a planner and designer of the city's appearance according to his profitable whims, without a guiding hand, without an overall view of the neighborhoods and the city , construction in excess of easements (abnormalities) and without taking into account the new outline plan of the city 2000!
Unfortunately, the engineering department suffers from impotence and disdain in handling the construction requests that have been sitting in the department's offices for years as an irreparable stone, and all references to the values that the ears remain orphaned. These days there is no mayor in Haifa and the person who is honest in his eyes will work in the dormant wing who receives huge salaries from the public funds that he does not receive from them for treatment and care.
Klish is a doctor of cities, isn't she? lol
And she also has consultants in cities, marketing, transportation, parking and what not
They are all silent, did you notice? No response ever
Contact all the city councilors and demand to know what they did in the first place
The chairman of the contractors' organization repeats again and again with tears and moans about the decrease in the amount of residential construction in Haifa and links the relatively low apartment prices to a small supply of new apartments!?
It is interesting how a small supply lowers apartment prices, there should have been exactly the opposite trend, namely an increase in apartment prices.
The Carmel center is crowded with new apartments for sale and there has been no buyer for a long time.
The Carmel Ridge neighborhoods are full of TMAot 38 and the demand for apartments is decreasing.
Since when and according to what principle of urban renewal do they start massive construction of apartments, before implementing an applicable plan to create new employment places and applicable plans for the development of the city, without a single shekel in the urban development budget?!
Entrepreneurs are afraid of getting stuck with apartments and going bankrupt and therefore do not start a construction initiative in Haifa, even though a large developer outside of Haifa is building a large complex of apartments under construction on Barel St. in Israel, even without developing the necessary infrastructure.
What exactly are you complaining about, the chairman of the contractors' organization?!
Meanwhile, greedy entrepreneurs consistently manage to destroy the city with wild, ugly and destructive construction of TAMA 38 point and regional projects with an "impressive success" of creating slums without proper infrastructure in Habiva Rake, in the Shambor neighborhood and in the Vitkin-Smolenskin complex, dense blocks of concrete that are unlike any other Even in the favelas of Rio.
Dear Chairman of the Contractors Association, what exactly is the constant and repeated crying of you and your colleagues in the organization?!
The contractors build luxury apartments where you can make a profit. No contractor will build in Hadar in the city or in Chalissa.
The mayor said that Haifa is dead..
And the few that did survive Yahav, she will already take care of killing - closing, cutting and eliminating. Haifa apartment, Oink Oink. Stink far away.
She said Barcelona and Berlin, we got Bnei Brak and Jenin.
The young people leave because a quarter of the city's budget goes to the millionaire pensioners of the municipality and huge salaries in the municipality:
2000 pensioners 15,000 NIS on average = NIS 350 million.
400 senior officials of the Haifa Municipality = NIS 200 million.
Together, 2400 people take up a quarter of the city of Haifa's budget. No wonder the development budget went to finance ongoing operations and the municipality with loans and a deficit of one billion shekels that will only grow.
When the taxes pay huge salaries instead of schools, culture, classes, transportation for children, youth movements, experiments and parks, then the whole of Haifa has been in continuous decline for a decade and a half.
When you move a noisy airport from Herzliya to Haifa, roll gas farms, turn the entire Kishon into a logistics site for containers, electrify the train through the entire city with a 5 meter high fence and approve a polluting end and a benzene terminal at the ports, why should young people stay here to suffer, both air pollution, both the destruction of nature and taxes that gluttons finance salary celebrations in the municipality.
I wonder if anyone buys apartments in Haifa? Quality of life among the lowest in Israeli cities in most neighborhoods in Haifa. Crime, wild boars, executions, hundreds of closed businesses on the streets, suffocating smells in Kiryat Haim, squeals and car races at night...
It really seems that a large part live in Haifa out of lack of choice and in extreme disgust from the shocking upheaval and the state of the city which is only getting worse and gaps are widening against the center in every area.
Well done to you for the article Polina and Voronkova on the live here website. Have a nice evening.