With some houses completely finished for months, the City Council of Santa Cruz can finally get down to work to raffle the 44 houses of El Tablerosince the Government of the Canary Islands has delivered the updated list of housing applicants in the municipality, which is almost 3,000 people.
The Councilor for Housing, Juan José Martínez, told DIARIO DE AVISOS that “we are working against the clock so that the draw is ready within three weeks.” A procedure that will be carried out in the Plenary Hall, will be broadcast by streaming, before a notary, and in which each applicant will have a digital code.
This process also has the peculiarity that the IMAS has been in charge of preparing the quotas that will be applied in the draw so that the different profiles of applicants have a greater probability of accessing one of the homes. According to the mayor of Social Action, Rosario González, “although we would have liked an award system that had to do with the conditions of social vulnerability, the current regulations oblige us to go to a lottery, that is why we have worked with Housing to create quotas and try to ensure that certain people in a situation of greater social vulnerability may have more probabilities of accessing this adjudication”.
In this way, there will be a general quota of 27 homes, in whose lottery the entire list of public housing applicants would enter. A second quota, made up of two buildings, will be dedicated to people with reduced mobility; a third, with five houses, will be for young people under 35 years of age, and a fourth, also with five houses, will be for people over 65 years of age. “To these we add a quota for families of reduced composition, that is, of two members, for which we will raffle three houses, and a final quota for large families, for which two houses are available,” González pointed out.
Martínez explains that, together with the draw for the 44 houses, which will provide a provisional award list, “there will be another with two substitutes for each of the houses, in case the first does not meet the conditions of a housing applicant.” And it is that the majority of people on the list provided by the Canarian Housing Institute (Icavi) have been on that list for years and may no longer meet the requirements, such as being registered in Santa Cruz, being unemployed or not having another living place.
Once this provisional list is ready, “we will create a technical commission between the IMAS and Housing to collect updated information, that is, we will verify that everyone meets all the requirements,” González added.
All this process, they assure from the IMAS, should not be extended beyond the summer months so that “in July we can be handing over the keys, that in August they begin to move and in September they are fully installed,” the councilors point out.
Martínez insisted on the importance of this delivery of housing, “after years without the Government of Canaria or any other administration promoting public housing, something that Santa Cruz is leading.”
