The Granadilla de Abona City Council intends to lead public housing policy in the South, the scarcity of which is one of the most pressing problems for citizens. To do this, the municipality will buy private apartments or buildings with the aim of putting them in the hands of different groups at affordable prices. Always on a rental basis, so that they do not cease to form part of the public heritage. That is, they will not be sold to their tenants.
This was announced by the mayor, Jennifer Miranda, when taking stock of her first hundred days and presenting her government program for the next four years, an act in which she reported on this measure that will be implemented for the year’s budgets. coming. Currently, the municipality has 64 rental homes. However, eight had gone up for sale with the previous government group. According to her, she said, her team has backed down, so “they will not be sold, but will remain in the public park,” while also warning that three of them “will be used for emergency situations.” social”.
More than a hundred public units
To those 64 already existing, the intention of the new corporation is to buy a package of between 40 and 60 more homes, so the public park of Granadilla de Abona would exceed one hundred units.
“The acquisition will be carried out through a public tender and both owners of finished homes and others that may be finished will be able to opt to put them on a rental basis,” advanced the mayor, who was willing to seek the collaboration of other Administrations, but He warned that “Granadilla has plenty of resources, with more than seventy million euros in the banks -remaining treasury-, so it will be done next year with its own funds, without waiting for anyone else.”
When rental prices are equivalent to 60% of the minimum wage
The mayor of Granadilla de Abona, Jennifer Miranda, explained it: the average rent in her municipality costs, annually, about 9,000 euros, at a rate of 750 euros per month. This figure represents almost 60% of the annual gross interprofessional minimum wage, which makes it impossible to start a life project.
It must also be taken into account that this reality coexists with the paradox that Granadilla is the municipality of Tenerife where the “bad” public bank, Sareb, has the most “empty” homes: 109 out of a total of 279 in the region. South, according to this organization’s own data.
