The Sí Podemos Canarias group in the Cabildo de Tenerife announces that it will present a motion to the insular plenary session on May 27 to “propose that the corporation, in compliance with the agreements adopted on housing and acting in favor of social justice, commit to the rapid acquisition of the Tabaiba building, located in the town of San Isidro (Granadilla de Abona), to resolve the terrible situation in which the 48 families who are about to be evicted find themselves and do not have a housing alternative ” .
United We Can demands that the company DesoKupa be prevented from “expelling” 48 families from the south of Tenerife from their homes
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Sí Podemos Canarias recalls that the budget of the Cabildo de Tenerife for this year “has an economic item of three million euros, included at the proposal of our group, to attend to the acquisition of homes that, later, will be made available to municipalities for use by families in vulnerable situations”. To this amount, we must add “one million euros more, also obtained by our political group, as a result of the credit modification file for the incorporation of the remaining treasury from the previous year.”
Therefore, Sí Podemos Canarias affirms that “the island corporation has the financial resources necessary to deal with this situation and prevent approximately 150 people, adults and minors, from being forced to survive on the street and totally helpless.” In the event that the purchase of the Tabaiba building cannot materialize, the political group demands that the Cabildo, failing that, “acquire another property as similar as possible in characteristics and functionality.”
In addition, the insular group points out that the problems that these families are going through “is aggravated because they are suffering threats and violent acts by the Desokupa company, a private company that tries to intimidate families using forms typical of mafia organizations, cutting off the supply of electricity and water to the 48 families that reside in the Tabaiba building, using methods that violate human rights and that may constitute a crime.”
In relation to this, Sí Podemos Canarias will also demand that the Cabildo de Tenerife “urge the City Council of Granadilla de Abona to guarantee access to the supply of drinking water by the residents affected, since it cannot be prevented that they have the basic right to access water while the current housing emergency situation that they are suffering continues.”
The insular group affirms that “this institution has the responsibility of ensuring the well-being of all Tenerife citizens, and especially of those social groups in a particularly vulnerable situation, for which we are certain that the Cabildo must take a step forward and solve this problem”.
