SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 22 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing, through the Canarian Housing Institute (Icavi), has awarded this Friday 24 new publicly promoted homes in the municipality of Valverde, in El Hierro, after eight years without delivering any protected house on the island.
For the construction of this housing development, 2,766,654 euros have been invested, which are still being executed in the final auctions of the work of the building that houses the new flats, located on a plot located between the streets Fuerteventura and Tenerife.
The expected date for the new winners to enter their homes is next July.
The director of the Canarian Housing Institute, Maribel Santana, and the mayor of Valverde, Antonio Chinea, presided over the act of delivery of the award acts that took place at the Cultural Center on Asabanos street, in Valverde.
After registering the new winners, who have left the list of housing applicants registered by Icavi in El Hierro, they have been summoned to provide the necessary documentation in the coming weeks before handing over the keys to their new homes .
This promotion of 24 homes, which began to be built in 2019, has two blocks built on a 1,996-square-meter plot ceded by the Valverde City Council. The houses have one to four bedrooms, garage and storage room per property, one of the houses is adapted for people with disabilities and another with four bedrooms will be a supervised flat.
The housing development has suffered a delay in its completion for reasons beyond the planning provided by Icavi, such as problems with suppliers to find and bring construction materials to the island due to the start of the Coronavirus pandemic; the scarcity of skilled labor in El Hierro for this type of construction and even the lack of accommodation for many workers who had to move from other islands.
This batch of homes in El Hierro, where no public housing had been promoted for eight years, joins several other promotions that the Ministry has launched in recent months, such as the construction of 16 new protected homes in Ingenio ( Gran Canaria) and another 11 homes in Breña Baja (La Palma).
This strategy that is part of the new Canary Islands Housing Plan 2020-25, whose objective is to put on the market nearly 6,000 protected homes for rent throughout the archipelago during the five years of execution of the plan.
