Livable real estate is essential for every human being as it functions as “a fortress versus numerous dangers, including health dangers like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic”, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Monday during a celebration of World Environment Day.
The President expressed his appreciation to the United Nations for promoting the theme “Real estate for All: A much better Urban Future” for this year’s celebration, which falls every year on the very first Monday of October.
The virtual occasion united stakeholders on sustainable urbanization and settlement development. Indonesia’s second biggest city of Surabaya in East Java got the honor of hosting the Scroll of Honor Award event on Monday.
In his speech, Jokowi stated that Indonesia had actually put extra effort into providing livable homes for its poor citizens through numerous programs, consisting of the so-called “one million houses program” introduced in 2015 during his very first term in workplace, in addition to the just recently introduced public real estate cost savings program (Tapera).
The very first real estate program intended to lower the country’s real estate stockpile from 7.6 million in 2015 to 5.4 million in 2019, specifically for lower earnings families. In the three years given that its launch, the program built 3.45 million real estate systems.
Tapera, on the other hand, intends to provide funds for first-time property buyers with monthly wages equal to or lower than the local base pay.
” We continue to establish financing developments to increase the poor’s access to real estate,” the President said.
The Scroll of Honor Award Event in Surabaya was participated in by representatives from Mexico and Colombia, who received this year’s award. Other recipients, particularly Uganda, Malaysia and Nepal, selected not to attend the event due to the pandemic.
The awards are provided to acknowledge initiatives that have actually made outstanding contributions in the field of human settlements, the provision of real estate and enhancement of human settlements, among other categories.
Surabaya was selected to host the event in acknowledgement of the achievements of its mayor, Tri Rismaharini, who was provided the award during the 2018 WHD commemoration in Nairobi.
She was honored for executing people-centered and inclusive city regeneration programs in addition to establishing initiatives that prioritize low-income locals.
