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T.A. city hall to examine ways to make housing in city more affordable
By Raz Smolsky, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: property, Israel 

In light of the soaring property prices, the Tel Aviv municipality has set up a committee to examine ways to make housing more affordable.

Among the measures under consideration by the panel, led by Deputy Mayor Arnon Giladi, are giving incentives to private land owners, and building apartments on land owned by the municipality.

Two sites were selected for preliminary review - the Gadna compound in the city's south and Nes Lagoyim block in Jaffa - which could create up to 1,700 housing units.
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Property in these areas, however, is already today reasonably priced.

"Our ambition is to spread populations from different backgrounds everywhere in the city, including the [wealthier] north," Giladi said. "Right now we're looking into sites in the south because they are municipally owned."

The criteria for cheaper property have not been fully set either. Priority will be given to people whose monthly income is below the average, who have been residents of Tel Aviv for at least three years, or who are not homeowners, and to parents of schoolchildren, but also to young couples without children.

The construction of the projects is expected to last at least three years, at the end of which, experts believe, there will remain a considerable shortage of affordable housing in the city.


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