A national planning body in May fast-tracked a plan to renew Kiryat Menachem’s 28-acre Hanurit complex, which currently has 646 substandard apartments, and turn it into 1,700 new units. But the planners were not able to include enough additional apartments for developers to make a profit, officials say. Ortal Matzliah, 33, has lived in her parents’ 580-square-foot apartment in the Hanurit complex almost her whole life. Families with five or six children get by in leaky, run-down apartments of just 430 square feet, she said. Under the planned renewal of her complex, present owners would get an additional 270 square feet per apartment, she said.

Source: New York Times October 08, 2020 21:04 UTC