Came the day. As planned and announced since last December 17, yesterday, at ten o’clock in the morning, Eva Perdomo, a 46-year-old Lagunera, she was evicted from the rental apartment where she lived in Tejina, along with her 81-year-old mother and her three children, ages 8, 11 and 15.
From that same Monday, and given the possibility that the court would not back down in its decision to vacate the property, the City Council of La Laguna offered to provide emergency assistance. On Tuesday, the Consistory, through the Municipal Housing service, provided another house in the same municipality. A suitable accommodation resource for the profile of this family, which has an elderly person, sick and with mobility problems, and three minors, according to the Councilor for Social Welfare, Rubens Ascanio, told DIARIO DE AVISOS. A house in which these five people will be able to stay, temporarily, “until a definitive solution is achieved for them.” “The advantage of these resources is that all expenses are borne by the City Council, so that, in this way, Eva will be able to save money to pay the deposit for another home,” said the mayor.
In addition, “you will be able to carry out the procedures for municipal rental assistance that grants up to 6,000 euros, as well as opt for any alternative housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the Housing Institute,” added Ascanio. And it is that Eva, at the moment, has two sources of income: her mother’s widow’s pension, which is 420 euros, and her unemployment benefit, 450 euros, and that she has the right to receive up to three months from now.
Eva, who had told DIARIO DE AVISOS that she had had to “decorate” the situation for her children and her sick mother so that they would not have a bad time and suffer, steeled herself and from Tuesday began to put all the boxes in boxes. belongings and belongings of the family. She was convinced that the court would not back down in its decision to evict her, despite not having presented any postponement. He owed more than 3,000 euros in rent to the owner of the apartment. It is, according to Eva, one of the hardest and most complicated situations that she has had to live throughout her life, which she assumes with sadness and helplessness, as she assures that she wants the best for her children. “My children are my life and I have had to choose between paying the rent or feeding them, which are at ages where they demand a lot,” says this lagoon.
A few days ago, Eva acknowledged to DIARIO DE AVISOS that the situation was overwhelming her and that on many occasions she was physically ill. She was afraid that something would happen to her because during the quarantine decreed after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020, her arms were infarcted and she suffered an aneurysm that leaves her unconscious when she is already under a lot of stress. a lot of stress.
Eva has no more family to go to and she does not have the support of her ex-husband and father of the children, who has not paid child support for a long time and who does not comply with the visitation regime. Something that, together with the threats received with taking away custody of the minors, led him to denounce him six months ago.
Now, Eva’s goal is to find a job as a sanitation worker again, which is what she has always dedicated herself to, or “anything else”, to be able to “stabilize” and be able to “live peacefully” with her family. Likewise, he wants to make it clear that he never wanted to stop paying the rent for the apartment and that he never refused to leave it.
