The Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) has proposed to the Plenary of the Santa Cruz City Council the mobilization of empty housing in the hands of financial institutions and large homeowners, such as the so-called vulture funds, with the aim of “discouraging their use anomalous and penalize the use
antisocial ”that is made of these houses. This was reported yesterday by the PAH, defending that this type of action is one of the few effective mechanisms in the hands of the administration “to respond to the violation of the Right to Housing.” The proposal has initially received the support of all municipal groups, which is why it is presented to the plenary session tomorrow as an institutional motion.
Through the proposal, the PAH of Tenerife proposes the creation of a Housing Observatory, which promotes policies that guarantee its social function and access to housing worthy of citizenship, especially for the most vulnerable people, “that carries out and manages the census municipal empty houses and inform the Canary Institute of Housing of their situation “.
In addition, the PAH establishes as a priority the updating of the Municipal Housing Plan so that it “contemplates and duly regulates the promotion measures that prevent permanent and unjustified homelessness. As well as a series of measures that by recognizing the anomalous use of the home and its permanent and unjustified unemployment allow the administration to guarantee
The right to housing”.
From the PAH Tenerife, Inma Évora, demands “the adhesion to all the Town Councils, Island Councils and the Parliament of the Canary Islands, through the different parliamentary groups and to the
Platform for People Affected by the Tenerife Mortgage ”.
