New rental flats for disabled people
Agreement signed for a plot of land and rental flats on Aldegata
The national organisation Down's Syndrome Association and the Municipality of Hafnarfjörður today signed an agreement regarding a plot of land at Öldugata 41 in Hafnarfjörður. The Down's Syndrome Association's housing fund plans to build there rental flats for six disabled individuals. The building is scheduled for completion in 2018.
Today, Mayor Haraldur L. Haraldsson, Sveinn E. Sigurðsson, chairman of the Housing Fund, and Árni Múli Jónasson, executive director of Down's Syndrome Association, signed an agreement for the development of a residential complex for disabled people at 41 Öldugata in Hafnarfjörður. The aim is to build accommodation that enables disabled people to live in their own homes in accordance with their needs and wishes as far as possible, to ensure them equal rights to housing, and to create the conditions for a normal life and participation in society. The parties involved are hopefully pleased with the agreement and it was deemed appropriate to sign it on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is held on 3 December each year. The day has been celebrated since 1981.
Here we see Rannveig Einarsdóttir, Director of Family Services for the City of Hafnarfjörður, Svein E. Sigurðsson, chairman of the Housing Fund; Harald L. Haraldsson, mayor; Árni Múla Jónasson, managing director of Development Aid; Ásdís Elín Auðunsdóttir, director of Einiberg; and Hrönn Harðardóttir, department manager at the Family Service.
Further information about the City of Hafnarfjörður's services for disabled people can be found
here.
Further information is provided by Árdís Ármannsdóttir, Communications Manager for the City of Hafnarfjörður – email:
ardis@hafnarfjordur.is