The Sacred Heart Home in the Riedenburg district of Salzburg closes. The main reason for this is the prevailing lack of staff, explains the spokesman for the home, Andreas Windischbauer, in an interview with SALZBURG24 today. For the 61 residents of the private retirement home, this means moving to homes run by the Diakoniewerk or the city of Salzburg. The 30 employees were also offered new jobs there. But what happens to the property?
???? Herz-Jesu-Heim is planning to move to municipal senior citizens’ homes and to the home for senior citizens of the Diakoniewerk. As in…
Posted by Heart of Jesus Home Salzburg am Thursday March 16, 2023
SPÖ advocates the purchase of land by the city
If the church decides to sell the building plot in a prime location, the SPÖ of the city of Salzburg advocates a purchase by the city. Because: “If we buy the property, we as a city can decide what happens to the location in the future,” explains municipal councilor and housing spokeswoman Nicole Solarz in a broadcast today. If you decide against a purchase, there is a risk that the property will become an object of speculation.
Alternatively, the property could be awarded to a non-profit developer with favorable building rights, suggests Solarz. “Urgently needed subsidized rental apartments” could also be built in this way.
Salzburg clearly misses housing targets
In fact, 810 new apartments should be built in the city of Salzburg every year, 300 of which should be subsidized rental apartments. This is what the residential construction goals in the Spatial Development Concept (REK) 2007, which was decided by the municipal council, would specify. Solarz sees these goals as “far from being achieved”. Last year, for example, only 312 apartments were completed.
Church wants to keep building land
The project of the SPÖ will probably not come about, as S24 learned from Windischbauer. Because the church wants to keep the building site, he emphasizes. A sale is therefore not planned. Instead, the building is to be extensively renovated. The rooms are then to be used again in the social area. In addition, only the operation of the retirement home will be terminated. The kindergarten in Hübnergasse will remain open.
(Source: SALZBURG24)
