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Mayor Lupoliansky Says Government Should Fund Neighborhoods Based on Number of Residents, Not Families

By Betzalel Kahn

The City of Jerusalem and the Construction and Housing Ministry inaugurated a chareidi community center — the first of its kind — which will serve the residents of the city's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood and will be operated under the close oversight of local rabbonim.

In a speech given during the opening ceremony, where Housing Minister Meir Shetreet was also in attendance, Mayor Lupoliansky discussed the difficulty involved in raising funds for neighborhoods blessed with a large number of children. The Mayor said following a meeting the government held last week to discuss the problem of the reduction in the percentage of Jews in the world, he met with one of the ministers and cited Ramat Shlomo, which has 2,000 families with a total of 20,000 people. The minister was greatly impressed by the figure and said such neighborhoods certainly offer a real answer to the problem of demographic competition with the Arabs.

"In Ramat Shlomo," said Mayor Lupoliansky, "we have indeed seen government officials take up the cause and build a large community center, but not always does the standard set for the amount of footage in public facilities for neighborhoods with 2,000 families meet the needs of another 18,000 children and teenagers living in them. I call on the government to fund these neighborhoods based on the number of residents living in them and not on the number of families or housing units, as in other neighborhoods."

 

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