Kirkop Convent Gets an Affordable Co-Living Makeover

Housing Minister Owen Bonnici joined the Foundation for the announcement. According to Lovin Malta, the project is designed to give people who want to live independently a more affordable route into doing so, using an existing religious building at the centre of the Kirkop community rather than new construction on open land.

What is confirmed is the intention and the site. The distinction matters: this is an announced project, not an approved or completed one.

The more consequential question is whether the Foundation can convert a heritage religious building, meet modern habitability standards, and keep rents low enough to justify the affordable label — or whether the convent's location in a small southern village will draw the people the scheme is meant to serve.

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