SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 5. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The CC-PNC group of the Cabildo de Tenerife has shown its concern about the data offered by Cáritas Diocesana, which indicates that there are 2,738 people in a situation of extreme residential exclusion in Tenerife, and has called for concrete actions to address the housing emergency on the Island .
The nationalist councilor Carmen Delia Alberto has pointed out that it is a situation that they have been denouncing for a long time “without the PSOE having put a remedy”. “We have repeatedly requested that measures be put in place to address this reality, which is alarming,” she added.
Carmen Delia Alberto criticized that in the government group “they complain that the number of people in extreme residential exclusion has increased, who are those who cannot access or maintain adequate and stable accommodation, but they do nothing to solve it.”
Thus, he recalls that in the plenary session held in May his group proposed that 5 million euros be allocated for the acquisition of public housing and 1 million euros for the Housing Rehabilitation Plan and the PSOE rejected both proposals. “That way it’s difficult to solve the housing problem,” he said.
The nationalist counselor added that since 2020 they have been asking for concrete measures on housing, from the reactivation of the Insular Housing Council – they requested it in February of that year – to the proposal that led to the Debate on the state of the Island in 2021, where it was agreed unanimously to immediately initiate the procedures for the acquisition of real estate so that they are delivered to the competent administrations and enabled as housing to increase the public housing stock on the island of Tenerife.
“To date, Pedro Martín has done nothing to solve this problem. In October 2021 we presented a motion in which we asked for 15 million euros for the purchase of homes in the period 2022-2024 and recently we requested those 5 million for allocate them to the public company VISOCAN with the aim of acquiring homes and making them available to the most needy individuals and families in Tenerife. They need to better manage and speed up the procedures because the situation is going to get worse with the rise in inflation” warned Carmen Delia Alberto.
