The construction site of the first building of the Yverdon Housing Foundation starts this Monday 18 August at rue Roger-de-Guimps. The planned building will make it possible to put 11 new subsidised apartments on the market at the end of 2015. After several days of asbestos removal from the existing pavilions, they will be demolished at the end of the week. The installation of the invert, in early fall 2014, will be the occasion, as is the tradition, to invite the project partners to a small ceremony called the foundation stone ceremony.
The first building of the Yverdon Housing Foundation, construction of which starts on Monday 18 August, will put 11 new 3- and 4-room apartments on the market by the end of 2015. Subsidised, according to the conditions laid down in the cantonal Housing Act, they will be reserved for people on modest incomes, in accordance with the aims of the Foundation. Located on Roger-de-Guimps Street, the three-storey building, the plans for which were drawn up by the firm Thibaud-Zingg Architects, will be built on plot 832, owned by the commune, on the basis of a building lease granted last year by the commune council. No objections were raised when the project was put out to tender.
The existing pavilions will be demolished at the end of the week after the asbestos removal. Foundation work and the installation of the invert will follow in early fall 2014. As is the tradition, this will be the occasion to invite the project partners to a small ceremony known as the ground-breaking ceremony. Construction is expected to last until early winter 2015, weather permitting.
This first project marks the new impetus that the municipality wanted to give to the construction of affordable rental housing by creating, in March 2012, the Yverdon Housing Foundation with a capital of 2 million francs. As a reminder, the last construction of this type by the City of Yverdon-les-Bains dates back to the mid-1990s. This first project will be carried out in parallel with the construction of the 8 housing units recently owned by the Foundation in the future Jardins de Saint-Roch district. The Foundation is currently examining the communal plots that are directly constructible, with a view to a third project in the short term. In the longer term, it should find, in the new planning under way, the land necessary for the development of its activities on a larger scale.