Although the spokesman for Visocan, the public housing company of the Government of the Canary Islands, stated on Onda Tenerife, statements collected by DIARIO DE AVISOS, that shortly -located next week- the purchase of the Aloe I building, on Fuerteventura street, would be unblocked in the El Fraile neighborhood of Aronoa, the truth is that the ten families that still remain in the 14 homes of the property fear that they will “throw them out onto the street” when notifications of eviction arrive these days, such as Daniela and Jesús Ricardo, announced for June 6 at 12:50 p.m., or even to the spokesperson for the neighbors, María José Regalado.
The inhabitants who reside in the Aloe I building, some since 2011, when they rented their homes with the option to purchase VPO, do not quite believe the statements of the Visocan representative, because they affirm that they have been like this for many months, with that announcement. What’s more, the councilor for Sí Podemos in the Arona City Council, Antonella Aliotti, stated yesterday that “we don’t believe anything, because Visocan does not pick up the phone from the Councilor for Housing or the mayor, and I am a witness to it. What’s more, from the bank we are told that these two pending procedures, which Visocan is talking about, have already been corrected. The ball is in Visocan’s court, so I don’t understand why it doesn’t act now while eviction notices continue to arrive, when it’s not about squatters, but about people who rented a home with all the guarantees until the company went bankrupt. They seem to act like a real estate agent.”
Three million
Aliotti was the councilor who brought a motion to the plenary session of Arona on January 27, 2022 so that the money that the City Council had to pay to Visocan -three million euros-, due to an unfavorable ruling in the CC Government stage in the Consistory, was destined to the purchase of the 14 homes of the Aloe I building, among other actions, a commitment that the public housing company acquired. “This agreement was reached unanimously and the money has been deposited in Visocan since June 2022,” recalled the mayor, who has been defending the affected residents all this time, some of whom have already given up the fight and They have gone to other properties or have died along the way, as was the case of a lady about to be evicted.
Only the moratorium, due to the arrival of COVID, has delayed those evictions that are now reappearing, despite the fact that the Social Services of the Arona City Council have already evaluated the level of vulnerability of the families that live there and that, according to the spokesperson of Visocan, “they will have no problem to continue being tenants of the Aloe I building”, although the definitive purchase has not yet been made from the bank that today is the owner of the property. “The malpractice that has been done with these families is amazing,” criticizes Antonella Morgana Aliotti.
