SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis, has agreed on Wednesday with the president of the Federation of Construction Entrepreneurs (FEPECO) of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Óscar Izquierdo, the establishment of a framework of public-private collaboration that promotes all the actions planned by the regional government for the reconstruction of homes and the fight against the housing emergency in La Palma that caused the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in September 2021.
As reported by the Ministry, one of these first actions in which the businessmen of the Tenerife employers’ association will collaborate will be in the Extraordinary Housing Plan created between the governments of Spain and the Canary Islands to attend to the evicted from Puerto Naos and The Light Bulb.
“After initially attending to the housing emergency of nearly a thousand people affected by the volcano with the purchase of houses and the granting of rental aid, we are now entering a new phase that is to facilitate the reconstruction of both those who lost their homes as well as those who cannot access their homes due to the gases,” said Sebastián Franquis.
“To do this, we have already taken the necessary steps from the regional and state administrations to implement reconstruction plans for which it is essential to have all the actors, including construction businessmen. For us, public-private collaboration It is essential in this new period with the objective of providing maximum well-being to those affected by the volcano after the adversities they have had to go through,” added the counselor.
After informing the director Franquis, together with the director of ICAVI, Maribel Santana, the FEPECO delegation headed by Óscar Izquierdo, of the entire process that was followed by the Ministry to have some 300 new homes in just one year, and concentrated in the Aridane Valley to care for the families who had lost their only home in the eruption, it was agreed to start from now on a new path in which public-private collaboration is prioritized for reconstruction.
In this sense, Sebastián Franquis invited the representatives of Fepeco to collaborate in the reconstruction programs planned to address the housing emergency on the aforementioned island, the most advanced being the Extraordinary Plan for the evicted from Puerto Naos and La Bombilla, a plan that It has 16 million euros provided by the governments of Spain and the Canary Islands.
The director of ICAVI indicated, in this regard, that they are going to meet with Canarian companies in the sector specialized in industrialized construction, a modern construction technique capable of shortening the construction of new homes for those affected by the volcano by almost a year.
“After clarifying some distortions that had occurred in terms of the information that came to us about what the ICAVI was doing on La Palma in the first months after the eruption, we have agreed to work together so that the reconstruction of La Palma is done in the best and fastest way possible, satisfying the needs of the affected citizens and, at the same time, generating economic growth, job creation and boosting the productive system of La Palma at the moment when it is most needed”, stated Oscar Left.
