The CC-PNC and PP groups in the Cabildo show their “concern” about the data offered by Cáritas regarding the 2,738 people in a situation of extreme residential exclusion in Tenerife. The nationalist councilor Carmen Delia Alberto points out that “we have repeatedly requested measures to address this reality, which is alarming.”
Alberto asks the government group for concrete actions to address the housing emergency that the Island is suffering. He recalls that in the May plenary session “we proposed that 5 million euros be allocated for the acquisition of public housing and another million for the Rehabilitation Plan and they rejected both proposals.
The nationalist counselor recalls that “since 2020 we have been asking for concrete measures, from the reactivation of the Insular Housing Council -requested in February of that year-, to the proposal that we brought to the Debate on the State of the Island in 2021, where it was unanimously agreed start the procedures for the acquisition of real estate so that they can be enabled as homes to increase the public stock”.
The nationalist counselor adds: «In October 2021 we presented a motion in which we asked for 15 million euros for the purchase of homes in the 2022-2024 period and recently we requested 5 for the public company Visocan with the aim of acquiring homes and make available to the most needy families.
The PP, for its part, is “concerned” about the lack of social care and accommodation resources for homeless people. The popular councilor Águeda Fumero points out: «The coronavirus crisis, growing inflation and energy poverty have left us with a very compromised social situation, with resources that have been revealed to be insufficient».
The Popular Party got the support of all groups to promote an initiative that seeks to create new resources for homeless people in the South and North. Fumero highlights the work of the third sector and demands that the administrations “work with the level of social commitment of the groups.”
