I see there is a planning application for the construction of 46 social housing units with underlying car park in Luqa.

In a country with somewhere between 10,000 and 70,000 vacant dwellings (depending on who is referring to them) it seems madness that the powers that be do not acquire some of these derelict properties and refurbish them for social housing, thus doing something to revitalise rundown streets, improve the townscape and do it at much lower cost to the taxpayer.

Indeed, one might assume that some of the proposed new housing units will be occupied by families moving out of some already rundown properties, thus adding even more units to the empty properties.

Furthermore, does the taxpayer really have to provide persons in need of subsidised housing with garaging?

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