Sestao Berri is a public company owned 50% by the Department of Territorial Planning, Housing and Transport of the Basque Government and 50% by the Sestao City Council. It was established in 2005 to be the tool to coordinate the urban regeneration of Sestao and to act with residents’ associations on social and coexistence issues.
The activity of the company comprises three main lines of work: Rehousing, renovation and municipal housing management. Sestao has at present 216 social rental homes. More than half of them -205 to be precise- make up the municipal housing stock, which is mainly used for rehousing situations. The average rent is 120,83 Euros.
The ASAP Program (Alokairu Segurua, Arrazoizko Prezioa) has as its main objective to facilitate that empty dwellings of private ownership will be incorporated into the market for the leasing at an affordable price to persons lessee.
