Comienza el derribo de las infraviviendas en Las Sabinas
The aerial image of the Guadarrama River as it passes through the settlement of Las Sabinas, between Móstoles and Arroyomolinos, shows several shanties surrounded by tons of garbage.
Since March 2023, when the Móstoles City Council announced the beginning of the end for this settlement and the relocation of the more than 90 families living there, Las Sabinas has faced several floods, fires, and waste accumulation.
Over two years later, the Arroyomolinos City Council has started demolishing the empty shanties located in the shantytown core.
The banks of the Guadarrama River turn into a dump after the floods
Most of these constructions are already uninhabited, largely due to the serious health hazards they face.
Once the shanties are demolished and the families meeting the established criteria are relocated, the City Council will render the lands unusable through «all tools at its disposal to prevent the construction of new shanties in the future.»
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The demolition work currently underway represents the first step of a comprehensive plan aiming to create a «safe and orderly natural environment in the heart of the Middle Course of the Guadarrama River Regional Park.»
A Problem Lingering Since 2023
In March 2023, the latest relocation agreement for families of the Las Sabinas shantytown in Arroyomolinos was published in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid, including the relocation of 90 families from the irregular housing core, completing the work of the 2013 agreement.
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In the previous action, authorities relocated 54 families after investing 12 million euros, with only this new agreement pending to provide housing for «another 90 families unable to join the previous one, whose relocation would enable the complete dismantling.»
The agreement included all necessary actions for the definitive eradication of this settlement, such as the demolition of the shanties and the environmental cleaning and conditioning of the area where they are located, on the banks of the Guadarrama River between the municipalities of Arroyomolinos and Móstoles.
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