SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Today, Thursday, the Deputy of the Commons, Rafael Yanes, delivered to the president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Astrid Pérez, an extraordinary report on the housing situation on the islands from a social perspective, which includes a total of 37 proposals that will be presented soon in parliamentary committee.
The Common Deputy has stressed that housing is “the main social problem that the Canary Islands have.” For this reason, he considers it urgent to reach a consensus on a housing policy on the islands and approve an agreement aimed at continuity, since “day by day access to housing is more difficult for a large part of the population.”
Rafael Yanes explained that this extraordinary report – the fourth issued by the Institution – is a participatory document in which the 88 town councils, the seven councils, the Autonomous Community, the professional associations, the business associations have been consulted. and to the groups involved in the matter.
From all this participation, Yanes added, 37 proposals have been designed that can be summarized, on the one hand, in actions in the private sphere, promoting policies that make housing an accessible good for the majority of the population; and on the other, actions in the public sphere, guaranteeing that there is social rental housing for the rest. According to him, “only in this way can we face the main social problem of the Canary Islands.”
The Common Deputy “humbly” offered these 37 proposals to the parliamentary groups so that they could submit them for debate, modify those they considered appropriate and add new ones that they considered more appropriate, reiterating that the important thing was to “generate that debate on the main problem that the Canary Islands have”.
In this sense, Rafael Yanes pointed out that the average public housing in Europe with respect to total housing is 9.3%, while in the Canary Islands it is only 0.96%. “That says it all,” stressed the Common Deputy, who appealed for there to be a powerful public housing stock for social rental and with permanent public status, so that it cannot be sold.
For her part, the president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Astrid Pérez, thanked the Deputy of the Common for his presence in the Chamber and “the work carried out to produce this extraordinary report on the housing situation in the Canary Islands, which is very necessary to help design future policies on this issue that so worries the inhabitants of the Archipelago”.
