SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 3. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Government Council of the Canary Islands has authorized this Thursday the extension of a budget item that will allow a subsequent modification of credit worth 1.4 million euros to activate this month the emergency rental aid for families who lost their homes due to the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, last September, on the island of La Palma.
Thus, it is one of the actions that the Government of the Canary Islands has activated to deal with the housing emergency suffered by a large part of the citizens of the Aridane Valley and which is complemented by the acquisition and delivery of homes that is already being carried out finished.
The budget increase will be followed next week by a credit modification for the same value, that is, 1,425,600 euros, which will allow the Canarian Housing Institute (ICAVI) to create the line of economic aid, on an emergency basis, for rental of habitual housing for those affected by the eruption while the reconstruction process lasts.
The objective is that families who have opted for this option when registering in the Single Registry of Affected People can begin to avail themselves of this new line of aid before the end of March.
From the work carried out by the Social Intervention Group, made up of 27 social workers contracted from the Registry Office of People affected by the volcanic eruptions on the island of La Palma, it has been determined that many affected families show their preference for renting, before the transfer of a temporary dwelling of one of the acquired dwellings.
In addition, it has also been detected that a part of the affected people who already live on rent lack the resources to pay the rent for their homes.
This new line of specific rental aid for those affected by the volcano will be managed through the Canarian Housing Institute and it is expected that it will need a total allocation of 3.2 million during the three years that it is intended to remain active.
The rents will be paid to those affected who are already registered in the single register of victims set up by the Government of the Canary Islands and who state this in their registration. Therefore, they will not have to carry out any new procedure to request them.
They will be entitled to receive this aid, for a maximum period of 36 months, all families registered in the single registry that justify having lost their habitual residence due to the eruption and provide proof of rent payment.
MAXIMUM PERIOD OF 36 MONTHS
In addition, both the owners of houses destroyed or declared uninhabitable, as well as tenants who lived in a house that was their habitual residence and was also destroyed or declared in ruins due to the eruption, may apply for this aid.
In this case, for those who rented before the eruption, the aid will consist of paying the difference between the rent from the previous rental and the new home, also for a maximum period of 36 months.
Evacuees whose homes are undamaged but who still cannot return to them due to being isolated within the laundry, due to lack of basic services or residing within the gas exclusion zone, will also be able to request the new aid.
In these cases, the aid will be paid until the moment in which they can return to their homes with full guarantees.
These emergency rental aids will be paid quarterly upon presentation of proof of payment.
The maximum amount that this aid can reach may not exceed the amount of 6.6 euros per useful square meter and month per dwelling, according to the prices that the State System of Housing Rental Rates establishes for the municipalities affected by the eruption. .
In this way, it is established that the maximum aid to be paid to each family will be up to a maximum of 594 euros per month.
