“This Monday we will chain ourselves at the door of Visocan and we will begin a hunger strike until they solve our problem,” María José Regalado, spokesperson for the 10 families that still reside in the Aloe I building, in the neighborhood of Tenerife, commented yesterday on Onda Tenerife. El Fraile, in the municipality of Arona, pending, all of them, from a eviction order that Visocan announced that it was going to be paralyzed after the mediation of the Arona City Council, something that the residents have not verified.
“We were told a month ago, it was even reported in the press, that it would be resolved in a week and it has not been like that; Now, no one even picks up the phone and we are desperate, because the elections are coming up and no one knows if those who are now will continue in their positions or not, and if we have to start our fight again”, commented María José.
In addition, he pointed out that if there is no imminent response, “on Monday we will chain ourselves at the door of Visocanin Santa Cruz”, being willing, even, to star in “a hunger strike”.
María José recalled that they have been religiously paying rent for three years and that this vulture fund cannot “throw us out of our homes just like that.” She also regretted that the administrations are once again giving themselves “blind sticks”, after announcing that everything was going to be fixed.
Although Santiago Negrín, spokesman for Visocan, the public housing company of the Government of the Canary Islands, stated on April 19 in DIARIO DE AVISOS that the purchase of the Aloe I building would be unblocked in a week, thanks to a debt of three million euros settled by the Arona City Council, the truth is that the ten families that still remain in the 14 dwellings of the property fear that they will be “thrown out onto the street”, when notifications of eviction arrive days later, such as Daniela and Jesús Ricardo, announced for on June 6, at 12:50 p.m., or even to María José Regalado herself.
