The tenants of the 76 dwellings that make up the promotion of social housing Galdo Buildingyes, in The Jury (San Isidro), are constituted as a platform for those affected by the resolution of the lease contracts, with the option to purchase, which is in force. The property, the public company Municipal Services of Granadilla de Abona (Sermugran), asks them to exercise their right to purchase before September 12, and must notify them before June.
In a document sent to the Mayor’s Office of Granadilla de Abona, signed by 71 of the 76 affected, they request that they be guaranteed “without further delay” the power to extend the lease contracts in the event that they cannot exercise their right of option. for sale. They also ask the mayor that the City Council and the municipal company agree “expressly not to proceed with the eviction planned for the homes of those affected.”
The platform assures that “we have never received a response, nor any alternative to the situation of uncertainty that we suffer”
In addition, they propose to the local government that the Consistory “intermediate” with CaixaBank so that the banking entity improves the conditions that it is proposing to the tenants for the subrogation of the mortgage loan, which now has the municipal company as the owner of the properties.
Sermugran has already notified the neighbors that this year the lease contract expires and that they must exercise the right to purchase. The tenants maintain that they meet the requirements for access to public housing, both at the income threshold and for not having another property. Likewise, they state that “many” of the families “suffer from an exceptional situation of vulnerability, some are elderly, have insufficient resources to rent at market price or have one or more family members with disabilities.” The platform states that the pandemic worsened “even more” the economy of many of these families, “which is why many of us cannot access a mortgage loan.”
yes there is communication
The residents of the Galdós Building state that the municipal company of Granadilla communicated to them, “through various channels”, that, if they did not exercise their right to purchase option in September, “We will have to leave the houses where we live, leaving the more than 70 families absolutely helpless who have no other alternative”.
In addition to “flatly” rejecting the management of this matter by its public officials, they criticize that to their requests for explanations “we have never received a response, nor any alternative to the situation of uncertainty that we suffer.” The extension of lease contracts for those who cannot exercise their right to purchase “is absolutely essential”, but it is an “extreme expressly denied by those responsible to the families who reside here.” In the opinion of the Galdós Building Affected Platform, this occurs “in violation, in our opinion and in a large number of contracts, of the Urban Leasing Law”.
Jennifer Miranda, spokesperson for the PSOE, publicly warned of the forthcoming eviction of these families, an extreme denied – described as false – by the municipal government, which, she said, “will seek the necessary alternatives for the benefit of those people in a situation of greater vulnerability.” The socialist councilor puts on the table that “it could lead to a situation in which entire families are evicted to leave their homes empty.”
