This Tuesday, December 19, the president of Semsamar, Alain Richardson, carried out a symbolic handover of the keys to a tenant of the “Cité Fond d’or” residence in Savane.
The new construction, purchased by Semsamar for an amount of €12M, consists of 52 housing units, including 18 social rental housing units (T3) and 34 villas (T4) with private gardens. The T3s, with an area of 68m2 and a monthly rent between €500 and €600, do not have a water heater, air conditioner or furniture. Those located on the ground floor, whose glass doors are fitted with accordion shutters, are arranged like duplexes. The T4, terraced houses with an area varying between 86 and 91m2 and a monthly rent of €990, are for their part equipped (fitted kitchen, water heater, air conditioners in the bedrooms) but unfurnished (dressing room integrated into the construction). The homes have access to water and are awaiting electricity, EDF should open the meters soon. The exterior lighting in the car parks runs on solar energy and each tenant benefits from two parking spaces as well as fiber in the apartments. The Semsamar rental stock, for which Jasaron Marcéna is responsible, has 1.500 housing units in the territory of Saint-Martin with constant and growing demand. For the “Cité Fond d’or” residence, no less than 300 applications were submitted for a selection of 52 families. By the end of December 2023, all tenants will have moved in.
According to the testimony of one of the residents, “it’s a very nice Christmas present and we will know how to take care of it.” Somewhat penalized by a delay on the site, this delivery long awaited by the tenants represents the first social housing built and completed since 2017, the residence opposite, La Belle Savane, being the last delivery since the passage of Hurricane Irma. Through its president Alain Richardson, Semsamar says it is proud and happy to provide a housing solution for these families in a context of strong demand for affordable housing and difficulties for operators to balance the financing of social residences. _VX
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