SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Deputy of the Common, Rafael Yanes, has met with representatives of ‘Acampada Reivindicativa Lolo Dorta’, who denounce that the SAREB entity, whose capital is mostly public, forces several families from the municipalities of Arona and La Laguna, in Tenerife, to abandon their rental homes to sell them.
The spokesperson for the group, Eloy Cuadra, expressed his deep concern about this issue that affects numerous families in the Canary Islands, “there are currently 877 homes owned by SAREB in Tenerife, of which 38 belong to Arona and 17 to La Laguna. Cuadra highlighted that “in the last electoral campaign, these homes were proposed as affordable options for families with few resources through social rentals.”
Eloy Cuadra explained that “for months, these families have been receiving letters, burofaxes and even statements from the court in which SAREB demands that they leave their homes.” Furthermore, he added that “they are low-income families who, for the most part, entered with legal rental contracts, some of them endorsed by the Canary Islands Housing Institute.”
Along these same lines, he requested that “these homes be purchased by the Government of the Canary Islands and put up for social rent. We want some way to be found so that they can be made available to the most vulnerable families with a social rent.”
The Deputy of the Common, Rafael Yanes, pointed out that, “although we cannot intervene in judicial processes, especially in cases of evictions, we will go to the SAREB, since it is a largely public entity, to find out the situation of these homes and contemplate the possibility of allocating them to social rent, adjusted to the salary income of the tenants”.
Furthermore, Yanes reiterated that “housing is the great social problem that the Canary Islands have, with the lowest percentage of public housing in Europe.” In addition, he highlighted the need to achieve a broad political agreement to build a public housing stock, essential to protect the constitutional right to decent housing.
