SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The NGO Provivienda has started a search campaign in the Canary Islands for private homes that are accessible by ramp or elevator, with more than two bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen-living room, with less than 90 square meters, are for sale and are not available. currently leased.
Its objective is to buy them to be able to rent them later at below market prices and facilitate access to housing for people in residential vulnerability situations.
“The sooner we have the homes we own, the sooner the people who need them can rent them and start building their home,” explains Fernando Rodríguez, territorial manager of Provivienda in the Canary Islands.
Although the sale of some homes on the islands is already being negotiated, the purpose of the entity is to acquire 76 properties, which is why the organization appeals to people who have empty homes in the municipalities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Telde , Arona, San Cristóbal de La Laguna and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Whoever has a home for sale in these municipalities can contact Provivienda at the email address canarias@provivienda.org or by phone 922 31 53 97 and 922 25 57 66, so that the NGO can study its acquisition. “For many people, these homes can be the key to a new life,” explains Fernando Rodríguez.
The organization emphasizes that the lack of affordable housing is a structural problem in the Canary Islands. Despite the fact that spending on housing should not exceed 30% of income, data from the Provivienda Affordable Housing Observatory reveal that rent on the islands represents 42% of the minimum interprofessional wage.
To alleviate this problem, one of the measures that the autonomous communities can apply is program 6 of the State Plan for Access to Housing 2022-2025, which makes it possible to increase the affordable rental housing stock through the acquisition of real estate, possibly reaching agreements with non-profit entities such as Provivienda.
Thanks to the collaboration with the Instituto Canario de la Vivienda, as Rodríguez explains, “we will be able to buy homes to return them to affordable rent, which will facilitate access to families in vulnerable situations who arrive as a result of the aforementioned through programs such as Canarias Prohogar”. “A formula that, complementary to other tools, such as the Housing Law, can contribute to expanding the affordable housing stock on the islands in the short term,” he added.
