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First ESK housing flats are completed in Jildrati City as the rest of Etxea sees more development work

[14 July 5625]

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The Etxebizitza eta Sustapen Kontseilua (ESK, Housing and Development Board) has officially announced that the first 1,300 flats in the Kubitschek neighborhood southeast of Jildrati City have been completed and that enough residents have been selected to begin occupying those flats from August onwards.
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Priority was given to unhoused individuals living in or domiciled in that area for these flats. The Kubitschek neighborhood is expected to have a capacity of 38,000 given its compact space next to the Jildrati City Port, which is still undergoing renovations and work to make it a regular port. However, it will be close to the center of the city and will have fantastic views of the Artanian Sea. ESK expects the rest of the Kubitschek neighborhood to be completed in four years as construction starts to ramp up, with new buildings also being planned for the area outside the Kubitschek housing area.
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As for the redevelopment of Jildrati City as a whole and the rest of the ESK projects, which we'll get to, such work continues unabated as new buildings are being worked on all over the city. Restoration of the Jildrati City National Terminal (for trains) continues after a grant from the government through various funds is provided, and it is expected to be completed in a year's time. Work has also been done to clear the tracks, link the rail tracks to the Jildrati City Port, and open up more commuter rail stations in Jildrati City and the surrounding area. Businesses like ArtSat and Etxean Bank have also begun to return and have started to invest some of their earned money and property back into Jildrati City with the southwestern and northeastern areas being given some care with funding for new apartment dwellings, additional stores and office space, and road improvements being seen in those areas in particular.
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The rest of the island continues to develop, especially in the western part of the island and around New Town. New housing and schools are being built in these areas alongside renovation of other schools and work on clearing rubble and restoring roadways throughout the island continues as well with the hope that schools in the region will start to reopen periodically over the next few years to expand the education system beyond a few schools that managed to survive the war or managed to reopen in some capacity over the last few years.
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ESK work continues in the other neighborhoods of Jildrati City and western Etxea. We have been given estimations as to completion: the western ESK projects are 8% complete, the Sambiru neighborhood in northern Jildrati City is around 17% complete, the Albatrossi neighborhood in eastern Jildrati City is around 20% complete, and the already-mentioned Kubitschek neighborhood in southeastern Jildrati City stands at 31% completion in terms of housing towers, common areas, neighborhood shopping locations, roadways and connections, and various other necessities like power and sewer system connections.
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However, one should note that conditions on the island, especially regarding power and housing, continue to plague the island. Most of the population outside Jildrati City live in tents, makeshift housing, or in RVs and trailer parks and rely on power from generators running on fuel. It will take a while for this population to return or go to proper housing like the ones seen in Kubitschek. It will also require clearing some of these trailer parks and makeshift housing areas, which has seen controversy lately because they may have to relocate the unhoused farther from where they originally lived. The President, Tiberius Claudius Nero, has said that he hopes that in two decades, most of the population outside Jildrati City will live in ESK-made housing or proper permanent homes. However, until then, he has put aside some money for homeless shelters, which have started sporadically throughout the island.
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Power plant construction has also continued with work on the first solar panel factory continuing, and the second solar panel factory's building is now expected to begin in a year's time. The President has also started allocating some resources to coal and oil power plants, which will be placed throughout the island to provide some power. The construction of the first coal power plant, alongside an oil power plant, is expected to begin shortly. These will take up to a decade to be completed. For now, imports of solar panels, oil, and coal to fuel homes in Etxea will continue to rise.