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Minister Housing notes that the new PEVR incorporates the principles of Good Practices on rehabilitation and urban renewal

international experts led by program director Good Practice UN analyze different winning European experience, including four English

November 17, 2008 .- The Minister of Housing, Beatriz Corredor, today opened the Conference on New Challenges and Best Practices organized by Urban the Ministry CaixaForum headquarters in Madrid and in which also involved, among other experts, the Program Director of Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme UN Wandia Seaford and the heads of various Best Practices awarded by UN-Habitat

In his speech, the minister stressed that "the principles of Urban Best Practices have been taken into account in the new State Housing Plan 2009-2012 and Rehabilitation which has among its priorities to strengthen the intervention and improvement activity in the park of existing buildings, notably in all those areas or areas with greater elements of weakness as historical sites, buildings, neighborhoods affected by structural or rural communities. "

Corridor has stated that" the first objective of the Ministry of Housing is to facilitate access to decent housing for all citizens, but closely linked to this objective is the right to the city, which means that all citizens Serbs should have access to public and environmental sustainability, also in urban environments. "To accomplish this, the Plan has reflected the recommendations of the Leipzig Charter and the UN Habitat Programme in the proposed integrated action in the city, speaking on the morphological, social, economic, ecological, cultural, political, etc.

Thus, explained Corridor, "Plan a comprehensive program designed to intervene in the consolidated city, stretching for the first time rural communities, with strong actions to the functional recovery of degraded urban centers and neighborhoods that need rehabilitation of their buildings and homes and interventions for development or redevelopment of public spaces.

addition, one of the new and urgent challenges to be faced, even from the area of \u200b\u200burban development and human settlements is the fight against climate change. "We that all interventions, both in the construction of new homes as in existing ones, aged between its aims the improvement of energy efficiency, "said the minister. To this end, the plan encourages the rehabilitation works that aim at saving energy and reducing greenhouse gases, while allowing a significant reduction energy bills for families.

Spain, awarded the Best Practices
Beatriz Corredor has reviewed the proposals and objectives of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and in particular the Best Practice Program Local Leadership that promotes the identification and dissemination of urban policies and actions that may be considered as exemplary, from the point of view of sustainability and improving living conditions in human settlements.

The Ministry of Housing, which holds the Permanent Secretariat of the English Habitat Committee has been promoting and disseminating good practices biennial competitions convened by United Nations, identified in a first phase, English Practice, who have returned to be awarded in the final call on 14 November in Dubai. The minister recalled that the English Network of Cities for Climate initiative of the English Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), has been awarded the highest distinction, from 456 proposals Award from around the world.

This award is in addition to the excellent results that the participation of English Practice has had on all their calls, with a significant number of proposals rated as Best or Good, having also won in five of the six calls to 2006, a Awards Award ten worldwide, granted by an independent international jury. Beatriz Corredor

has affected the urban Practices are, in many cases, urban policy paradigms adapted to face new challenges that the evolution of our society has put in the spotlight: sustainable development, urban renewal, the right to decent housing, social integration, the incorporation of gender policies and equality, the development of sustainable transport modes, or the protection of urban and rural heritage. Therefore, he concluded, "Best Practices can be used to improve urban policies in all aspects: sustainable cities from the environmental point of view, more socially integrated and more efficient from the point of view of the economy and job. "

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