The Councilor for Housing, Territory and Mobility, José Luis Mateo, and the mayor of Ibiza, Rafa Triguero, have presented this Wednesday the new public housing development that Ibavi will develop on the site of the old Mercat Pagès, ceded by the City Council. The works, as announced, will begin next year and are part of the strategic plan to increase the supply of affordable housing exclusively for residents.
The development contemplates the construction of eight subsidized housing units for rent, located at 18 Vicent Serra i Orvay Street, on a 245 square meter lot with a maximum buildable area of 904.87 m² distributed over five floors plus attic. The project will include six two-bedroom dwellings -one of them adapted for people with disabilities- and two three-bedroom duplexes that will occupy the fourth floor and the attic. The estimated budget is 1.8 million euros.
This will be the first of two developments that the City Council has ceded to Ibavi in the municipality, along with the future construction of 51 public housing units in Can Cantó, preferably for people with more than ten years of residence in Ibiza. The action is part of the express procedure contemplated in the new Law 4/2025, which expedites the processing of public housing projects declared to be of regional interest.
A boost that adds up to almost 300 new Ibavi homes in Ibiza
The Mercat Pagès development is the first of six planned by Ibavi on the island, four of them on plots of land ceded by the Ibiza Town Hall, one on land belonging to the Island Council and another in Sant Antoni, acquired from Sareb. The sixth corresponds to the part that Ibavi will execute in the urbanization of Ca n’Escandell, dependent on the state-owned company Sepes.
In total, Ibavi is promoting almost 300 new public housing units in Ibiza, within a shock plan that adds up to nearly 1,000 affordable housing units in different stages of processing, including the “Build to Rent” program and the actions derived from Law 3/2024 on emergency housing.
Municipal premises converted to affordable housing
During the visit, Mateo and Triguero also supervised the conversion of two municipal premises in Dalt Vila -located in UA27, at numbers 18 and 20 Retir street-into affordable housing. The work, which began in March, is now entering its final phase and is scheduled to be completed by the end of this month.
The mayor recalled that the City Council is in the process of converting some fifteen premises into affordable housing, with the aim of taking advantage of unused spaces and increasing the residential offer for the city’s residents.
“All these initiatives – those of Ibavi and the municipal ones – are aimed exclusively at residents and represent a decisive step in the fight against homelessness in Ibiza,” Triguero stressed.
