A total of 93 families from Anazain Santa Cruz de Tenerife, have denounced this Thursday before the Common Deputy that they face evictions imminent after having notified them that they had to leave their homes in February 2024, and the public company Visocan denies having filed any eviction lawsuit against any of the tenants.
The families, as reported by the Common Deputy in a statement, claim that Visocan prevents them from regularizing their rental contracts. The representative of the families who had a rental contract with the previous owner, Yurena Rodríguez, asserts that after receiving the eviction notice they were offered the possibility of regularizing a new rental contract and managing the outstanding debts of some neighbors, but Visocan refuses to reach an agreement.
For its part, the public company Visocan says that this information is “uncertain” and has highlighted that it has repeatedly tried to get the 50 tenants with a rental contract with the previous owner to regularize their situation.
Raquel García, as spokesperson for vulnerable families who did not have a formalized contract as of 2019, denounces that when the eviction process began they were asked to deliver documentation to an NGO that would act as a mediator but, to this day, they continue without having regularized their situation.
The representatives of these groups conveyed to the Common Deputy their concern regarding the vulnerable situation in which these families find themselves, who do not have any housing alternative.
The Common Deputy stated that he will go to the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council to find out what rental aid they have agreed to provide for residents who have a contract, and to Visocan to find out their willingness to formalize a new rental contract starting in February. . In addition, it will communicate with Visocan “to carry out personalized monitoring of each of the cases of families that do not have a contract.”
The public company, which has specified that it is unaware of the vulnerability or otherwise of its tenants, since Visocan has no powers in this matter, has recalled that it bought the 358 Añaza homes in 2019 and since then it has tried to get all its occupants regularized. your situation. For this reason, he denounced, it does not conform to reality that this company “refuses to reach an agreement” with the occupants of the homes.
More than 75% of the neighbors are in a regular situation, that is, they have signed a lease contract with Visocan, the owner of the homes, he added.
Likewise, it has reported that it has opened direct lines of dialogue with those affected to offer them “individualized alternatives that allow resolving the different cases that occur in these two Añaza promotions.”
At the same time, it guides and informs residents about all the public resources they can access that are the responsibility of other organizations, he added.
He has also indicated that he works with the firm will to provide legal security to all parties and improve coexistence in the more than 6,000 homes that he manages in the Canary Islands.
Public companies also have the obligation to ensure the housing well-being of the 20,000 applicants for protected housing on the islands.
To this end, “as it cannot be otherwise, Visocan has the obligation to comply with current regulations.”
