The Brussels Government will attempt to reduce unemployment rates and improve the rate of energy renovations when handing out their next 'neighbourhood contracts', the capital's Minister-President Rudi Vervoort announced on Tuesday.
Since 1994, the regional government has been handing out neighbourhood contracts to the capital's poorest municipalities.
This allows regional authorities to approve targeted projects that respond to the pressing needs of less wealthy areas when it comes to housing, public spaces, local infrastructure, environmental protection and social cohesion.
For the fourteenth series of contracts to run from 2023 until 2031, the Brussels Government has decided on two issues to tackle: unemployment and the energy crisis.
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Municipalities will have until May to submit their applications which will either have to draw up a shortlist of professions lacking in the neighbourhood or conduct an energy audit in collaboration with RENOLAB, the regional agency in charge of energy renovations.
