One year after the eviction from Las Bajas, on the Agache coast, in Guimarseven families are now facing another eviction from the flats where they have been renting since then, when the Guimar Town Hall decided to remove them from their homes to carry out emergency works on the slope and on the road that connects El Puertito with Punta Prieta.
The works were paralyzed in September, after starting in April, due to their high cost overrun, when an initial budget of 345,000 euros exceeded one million euros.
The City Council then managed, with Airam Puerta as mayor, that seven families who proved to have their only home in Las Bajas, could be rehoused in different rental flats in the municipality, with the commitment of the construction company, Bernegal Infraestructuras, to take charge of the payment of the rent to the different owners of those flats.
For months, when the City Council did not attend to the payment of the certifications, when the budget initially established was exceeded, the company stopped paying the rent and the landlords have filed a lawsuit against the construction company, the tenants being notified that they have to leave the flats .
Thus, one of the residents of Las Bajas affected, Ana, yesterday received a letter in her mailbox, with a notification and request for the launch of the house scheduled for June 20, at 12:00.
Ana commented that “this letter has also reached the rest of those affected or it will reach them, but the only thing that is clear to me is that I am going to return to my home in Las Bajas, I am not going to stay and live under a bridge with a 12-year-old boy. years and another two,” said the neighbor, who has been living in that area for 11 years, “without a single stone falling in all that time to speak of the imminent danger of landslides.”
Ana also pointed out that “25% of them remain to be executed, but the work has been stopped for a long time and if the company is not paid, it will not continue. We can’t wait.”
The neighbor contacted the mayor, Gustavo Pérez, yesterday, who told her that “he would see what could be done”, while the first deputy mayor, Airam Puerta, who ordered the emergency action in the area and the eviction , told him, according to Ana, that “we are going to try to get an expert to carry out a study and find out if there are conditions to be able to return to the houses, even if the work is not finished.”
