The Municipality of La Laguna has activated a call for the search and house purchase for social purposes that will allow “creating a public park”, as announced by Mayor Luis Yeray Gutiérrez in a statement.
Said homes, which may belong to different urban centers of the municipality, will be acquired by the town hall or by the public company Muvisa.
Gutiérrez has defined this initiative as “the first block of an action that will provide a temporary resource to deal with housing emergencies”, since one of the commitments of his government has been precisely to “facilitate access to housing as a right recognized in our Constitution”.
Rubens Ascanio, councilor for Social Welfare, has expressed himself in similar terms to those of the mayor, pointing out that since 2019 the government group began to develop a shock plan to face “this tremendously complicated reality”.
Social housing applicants
A) Yes, The lagoon “It has become a reference municipality in the Canary Islands in addressing the problems experienced by thousands of families with difficulty in accessing housing.”
The municipality currently has some 2,300 families requesting a protected house.
During 2020, the town registered more than 300 evictions, these people being “maintained by the town hall through its housing resources”, Ascanio assured.
In this way, the local corporation has gone from having three social flats in 2019 to seven in 2022, in addition to opening its first municipal reception resource, “which has served more than 100 people during the first year”.
To these data we must add the ten new homes equipped to support families who require this assistance and the 3 million euros that the city council now puts into use for the creation of the park.
Of this amount, two million will be used in the direct acquisition through this call and another million for the purchase of 16 modular homes in Geneto.
“The public administrations have to put everything in our power, each with their powers, to attend to this reality,” said the mayor.
Juan Ignacio Viciana, director of Muvisa, for his part, has been in charge of explaining the purpose of the call, based on the prospecting of collective residential housing buildings and single-family homes completely finished or in structure.
“The procedure is very simple and simply consists of accrediting ownership and making an economic offer”, Viciana pointed out.
In this way, an initial assessment will be made and from there, a bidding procedure will be initiated, giving priority to “the most convenient properties from the point of view of municipal interest”.
The representative has declared that he is “convinced” that many offers will be received and has recalled that, at the beginning of the mandate, there were 45 homes in Muvisa that are now full, with which he has emphasized the need to have this park of its own .
Holders who are interested in selling their properties can offer them to the town hall through the form that is available on the Muvisa website and must be submitted within 30 days.
