Promote the regulation of vacation rentals and the construction of new homes at affordable prices. These are the housing challenges of the Government of the Tenerife Councilpresided over by the nationalist Rosa Davila, in the face of the new real estate crisis that leaves many Tenerife residents – especially those with fewer economic resources – without options to buy or rent a decent roof.
For the Tenerife Government, “it would be desirable in Canary Islands a regulation of vacation housing that encourages the improvement of the quality of the entire offer, that guarantees objective security in the arrivals and departures of clients and in the transmission and management of that information between administration and operators, and that contributes to improving the taxation of said economic activity. That is why Rosa Dávila’s team, which governs the Cabildo thanks to an agreement between Canarian Coalition and Popular Party, supports the initiative of the Tourism Department of the regional Executive to “face with speed and determination the challenge of regulating vacation rental activity in the Canary Islands through regional law.”
Criticism of the PSOE
It is the response of the Tenerife Government to the criticism of the PSOE, the main opposition party in the Tenerife Cabildo, against the island policies to solve the housing problem on the Island. The island PSOE sent a statement yesterday in which it recalls that «the Cabildo must promote a Housing Plan for Tenerife with the aim of providing land for the construction of public housing, which must be an ambitious and realistic project, within its powers, that continues the policies undertaken in the previous mandate”, in which the socialists governed with Citizens. In addition, the socialist group asks the Tenerife Cabildo that “it is a plan that is in coordination with the Government of the Canary Islands and the municipalities of Tenerife because housing has become one of the main problems for the population of the Island.
Rosa Dávila’s team recalled that it is already immersed in a round of contacts with all municipalities to find consensual solutions that meet the problem, which include the acquisition of real estate or the transfer of land on which new developments can be built. of houses at affordable prices for islanders with fewer economic resources. Likewise, he develops an agreement with the Canary Islands Housing Institute, the instrument with which it participates in the housing policies of the regional Executive. It is also waiting for the million euros that the Government of the Canary Islands will provide for the Tenerife municipalities that have less than 20,000 inhabitants.
In the same statement, the PSOE denounced “the lack of solidarity of Rosa Dávila’s government team in leaving 30 of the 31 municipalities on the Island without access to housing rehabilitation aid.” “Specifically, only the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, led by CC-PP, will receive the amount of this aid, as set out in the Tenerife Cabildo 2024 Budget approved by CC-PP and VOX,” detail the socialists.
In the extraordinary plenary session of the island budgets, the president of the socialist group and former president of Tenerife, Pedro Martin, explained that the PSOE “is in favor of the Cabildo of Tenerife collaborating with the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the rehabilitation of housing but it cannot be the only municipality with which it collaborates in 2024 in a unique way.” «It seems that Mrs. Dávila’s only interest in the Cabildo is to please the mayor of Santa Cruz de TenerifeMr. Bermúdez. “This situation demonstrates, once again, the little interest that the Government group, CC-PP supported by VOX, has in providing solutions to people’s real problems.”says the spokesperson in the Cabildo, Aaron Afonso.
Rosa Dávila’s team denied these criticisms yesterday. Official sources assured that the departure to Santa Cruz to which the PSOE refers is part of a specific and direct subsidy for the chicharreros rehabilitation plans. «Work is already underway on the island rehabilitation program, which has nothing to do with this specific item for Santa Cruz. It is a program in which the 31 municipalities of Tenerife will be involved, not just Santa Cruz,” stressed the official source consulted from the Cabildo Government.
