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The Municipality of Miraflores unanimously approved in a Council Session the ordinance that allows the conversion of office buildings to housing with the purpose of supporting economic reactivation considering that 70 of these types of buildings are unoccupied. The announcement was made by Lucho Molina mayor of Miraflores moments after presiding over the Council Session indicating that the approved norm is motivated by the new post-pandemic conception because virtual work has generated an increase in the vacancy of offices of the type B and B . He also pointed out that studies carried out on the increase in vacancies in Miraflores Colliers study registered a 21.7 vacancy in the first quarter of 2021 and a 22.4 in the second quarter ranking first with respect to the other districts with the highest availability of offices. To this is added that the tax effectiveness between 2020 and 2021 compared to 2019 has been reduced by 12.5. Mayor Lucho Molina stressed that under this context the aforementioned Ordinance becomes a tool for owners or promoters to be able to renovate their properties and revitalize commercial areas that currently have displacement absenteeism causing insecurity in the streets and thus the owners of the properties will be able to comply with the payment of their tax obligations generating the development of sustainable urban economies. In addition he noted it will be possible to collaborate in the reactivation of economic development as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic promoting residential activity in the office buildings that are available generating social economic infrastructure and mobility benefits balancing the urban development of the district.
