The Governing Board of the Santa Cruz City Council agreed yesterday, unanimously, “to insist on the Government of the Canary Islands to comply with its commitments in terms of housing”, explained the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez. “They must assume the responsibility of acquiring housing so that the most vulnerable families in our city can access a home,” the mayor explained. He alluded to the houses on the rise to El Tablero, and to the Alejandro building in Nuevo Obrero, whose purchase by the Government would solve the problem that affects the families that occupy these buildings.
The Councilor for Housing, Juan José Martínez, recalled that the Plenary approved the creation of a coordinated table between municipalities and the Canarian Government, “to identify people in a weak situation and offer them a decent place to live.”
For its part, the capital’s PP also demanded yesterday the construction of 1,300 public houses in Barranco Grande, on the land planned for it. The PP spokesman, Carlos Tarife, pointed out that “we have asked the Government of the Canary Islands to make the appropriate changes in the Land Law, so that the City Councils can speed up the processes to have land for public housing” and recalled that, in Santa Cruz, there are 3,500 applicants for public housing.
