The City Hall of Santa Cruz of Tenerife, through the Delegate Department for Housing, under the responsibility of Juan José Martínez, and in coordination with the Municipal Institute of Social Care (IMAS), chaired by Councilor Rosario González, will proceed today, Thursday, at 9:30 a.m. hours, to the draw for the provisional award of the 44 protected homes of El Tablero among the possible beneficiaries included in the list drawn up and provided to this corporation by the Government of the Canary Islands, a list that exceeds the 3,000 people.
The draw, which can be followed through the municipal YouTube channel, will be held in the Plenary Hall before a notary and each applicant will have a digital code. Likewise, in the allocation of housing, certain quotas will be taken into account and prepared by the Municipal Institute of Social Care (IMAS), in order to include the most vulnerable sectors demanding housing in the municipality.
In this way, as explained to DIARIO DE AVISOS by the councilor responsible for the IMAS, Rosario González, “although we would have liked an adjudication system that had to do with conditions of social vulnerability, the current regulations oblige us to go to a lottery, which is why we have worked with Housing to create quotas and try to ensure that certain people in a situation of greater social vulnerability may have more chances of accessing this award”.
With this idea, there will be a general quota of 27 homes, in whose lottery the entire list of public housing applicants would enter. A second quota, made up of two buildings, will be dedicated to people with reduced mobility, one of them for people who need a wheelchair and another for those who do not; a third, with five dwellings, will be for young people under 35 years of age; five homes for plaintiffs who are 65 years of age or older; three for families with a maximum of two members (small families) and two homes for large families. The final award will take place after verifying that the conditions required by law continue to be met.
Juan José Martínez explained that, together with the draw for the 44 houses, which will provide a provisional award list, “there will be another with two substitutes for each of the houses, in case the first does not meet the conditions of a housing applicant.” And it is that the majority of people on the list provided by the Canarian Housing Institute (Icavi) have been on that list for years and may no longer meet the requirements, such as, for example, being registered in Santa Cruz, being unemployed or not. own another home.
Once this provisional list is ready, a technical commission will be created between the IMAS and Housing to collect updated information, that is, it will be verified that everyone meets all the requirements. All this process, they assure from the IMAS, should not be prolonged beyond the summer months, so that in July the keys can be handed over.
