The solidarity website created by the real estate sector to find free accommodation for health workers and civil protection personnel who fight to combat the coronavirus pandemic It has already managed to sign 105 lease contracts -at cost 0-, in just over a week, according to what idealista / news has learned. Emergencyhome.help accumulates nearly 30,000 visitors and works to increase the number of floors for the ‘heroes’ of this health crisis.
Covid-19 has already infected more than 100,000 people in Spain and has claimed more than 9,000 victims, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The virus has generated a health and economic crisis that the Government tries to stop with a state of alarm and with a series of measures to protect the country’s business fabric. But the state is not the only one fighting this pandemic. The companies themselves have also gotten down to work to combat this situation and in many cases altruistically.
In this line, a Madrid real estate agency launched a little more than a week ago a website so that different professionals and individuals can give their empty apartments to health workers and Civil Protection personnel who are fighting the coronavirus pandemic. The idea is that these employees have a place of residence as close as possible to their workplace during the time that this crisis lasts so as not to infect their relatives.
“We have 30,000 visits to the web and we have received 1,380 leads or contact forms, of which 827 -67% – are in demand (health personnel or state security forces and bodies) and 553 -33% – are owners who give up their homes for this purpose, “they explain to idealista / news from this solidarity platform.” Some 105 contracts have been signed for leases at zero cost “, they clarify.
By geographical areas, Madrid and Catalonia are the autonomous communities that accumulate the most requests to find accommodation. “We have 351 applications in the capital and 119 in Catalonia. In this sense, we have encountered a problem in the central area of Madrid because we have very little offer -171 loaned apartments-. At an international level, from Emergencyhome.help they explain that this solidarity initiative is also found in Italy, Colombia, France and the United Kingdom.
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