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Madrid to Prioritise Operation Campamento

8 October 2019 – The Madrid City Council is looking to prioritise the Operation Campamento, a plan to build 10,700 homes on lands owned by the Ministry of Defense. The former PP mayor Alberto Ruiz Gallardón originally signed an agreement in 2005 to develop residential housing in a disused military zone in the district of Latina.

The PP and Ciudadanos political party coalition ran on a platform of streamlining such development to help increase the supply of housing in the capital city.

To increase the housing stock for rent, the City Council intends to finalise the 4,500 homes belonging to the Municipal Housing and Land Company. The council will also transfer the surface rights to sufficient land to build 5,000 homes and will seek to redevelop existing buildings.

Original Story: ABC Madrid / EFE

Adaptation/Translation: Richard D. K. Turner