Tension is growing in San Isidro between the vacancies and the hundred people who reside, some since 2016, in the 48 homes of the Tabaiba building, built under VPO and on land ceded by the Granadilla City Council in its day, and today supposedly bought by a Romanian businessman.
Yesterday, neighbors and members of anti-eviction platforms gathered in the Town Hall square to demand that the mayor let them enter the water tanks, after on Wednesday members of the Desokupa company broke three of the four access doors to the building and They will cut the network of the vats located on the roof, in a building that, as it does not have a certificate of occupancy, does not have electricity and running water. The protesters denounced that a local police officer had prevented a tanker truck from bringing water to the building and so they transferred it to the mayor of Social Services, María de la O Gaspar.
Desokupa reports that they cut the hoses from the rooftop tanks because the weight was excessive for the building, something that Israel Ojel, from the anti-eviction platforms, denied yesterday: “Each square meter can withstand a load of six thousand kilos,” he said.
Ramón Trujillo defends the right to housing of the residents of the Tabaiba building
United We Can expresses support for the Tenants’ Union and the Clear Mountain Platform for the role they are playing in defending the right to housing. Ramon Trujillospokesperson for United We Can in the Santa Cruz City Council, calls on the Government of the Canary Islands and the Granadilla City Council to prevent the Desokupa company from expelling 48 families, in a situation of social exclusion, from their homes.
Likewise, Trujillo demands that Desokupa not be allowed to assume an exercise of authority functions, which is as illegitimate and as incompatible with democracy as entrusting them to dissolve demonstrations. “We must put an end to these practices before they spread to other municipalities,” he remarks.
