2023-10-30 16:25:45
Not yet officially informed of this hard blow, the candidate municipalities retain a slim hope of benefiting from this envelope of 18 million euros which would allow them to remodel one of their neighborhoods which really needs it.
“The disappointment would be very great“, reacts Saliha Raiss (Vooruit), alderman in Molenbeek. “The Urban administration had selected our maritime district. A team and resources had already been put in place. Jobs also depend on this financial envelope. It would be dramatic for us, although I understand that difficult budgetary choices had to be made.“
“We would obviously be very disappointed by this freezing of the choice of sustainable neighborhood contracts“, continues the acting mayor of Schaerbeek. Cécile Jodogne (Défi) above all hopes that it is a simple postponement of subsidies, and not a “cancellation which would lead to restarting the application procedure.“
More broadly, does this infrequent decision mark the beginning of the end of this important development lever for municipalities for almost 30 years? By suspending the program for a year, the Brussels PS/Ecolo/Défi government is returning the hot potato, in fact, to the coalition that will emerge from the regional elections next June.
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