The Cabildo of Tenerife manages an agreement with the Canary Islands Housing Institute (Icavi) to help mitigate the problem of access to housing for rent or purchase. Sofía Hernández, insular councilor of the area, announces that the insular Government is working to finance the acquisition of properties under construction and the works necessary to put them to use, the purchase of land and the urbanization of that which requires it for its transfer to the Government of the Canary Islandsin order to expand the social housing stock on the Island.
By virtue of its powers, the Cabildo can currently only act through the housing rehabilitation program, for which it has tripled the budget to three million euros, as well as open a subsidy line to acquire land. “The agreement with Icavi will be the key to executing the Housing Plan,” concluded Hernández (PP) in his appearance.
Socialist advisor Javier Rodríguez assured that “we are facing a dramatic situation.” He explained that from 2012 to 2020 “not a single public housing was built in Canary Islands. Not 1% of the housing stock is public on the islands, in Europe it is 8.5%. It is the biggest social problem in the Canary Islands, as the Common Deputy points out.
Naím Yanes (Vox) recognized himself as one of those young people under 30 years old who cannot be emancipated and repeatedly demanded a statement from the Housing Minister on the occupation situation to put a cap on rent.
The nationalist Juan José Martínez assessed that the action program promoted by Sofía Hernández “has no parallel in the Cabildo”, maintained that the Canary Housing Plan “is a good starting point that does not achieve the objectives” and put on the table that “The housing problem also requires sufficient incentives for public-private collaboration to create protected housing.”
The vice president, Lope Afonso, highlights the work of the counselor and remembers that the fundamental competence lies with the Government of the Canary Islands. “It is about providing the best solutions in the shortest possible time to the housing problem,” he added before Sofía Hernández had an intervention for which she would apologize minutes later, expressing her disagreement with counselor Rodríguez (PSOE).
All the participants were conciliatory (except for that moment with the counselor). After 88 days of her mandate, Sofía Hernández assured yesterday that she has already maintained contacts with 19 of the 31 municipalities on the Island.
