The City Council of Tacoronte has activated a hearing procedure so that the eleven families affected by the imminent eviction of social emergency housing can present allegations and obtain an agreed solution in accordance with their economic and social circumstances. The Councilor for Social Services, Jose Caro, states that “before starting the eviction procedures for these people, several communication channels have been opened with them, with the aim of assessing the situation they are currently going through and, if they do not have the minimum resources to move to another housing, help them with personalized measures based on current legislation.
According to what is also the second deputy mayor, the previous mayor of the city, Jose Daniel Diazsigned an initiation order to begin the eviction procedures of those affected, “given that all of them failed to comply with the maximum period of occupancy of the social emergency housing, set at three months, with a single possible extension of another three months.”
Caro remembers that some of these families have been living in the City Council’s social emergency apartments, irregularly, for nine years. This is “a reality that completely fails to comply with the ordinance that regulates the use of these residences, approved in 2012, and that has been surprisingly ignored, despite repeated warnings from the legal and coordination service of the Department of Services.” Social,” he points out.
Among the solutions being considered to guarantee access to temporary housing for those families who cannot yet manage it with their own means, is the increase in the nominal subsidy that every year the city council gives to the NGO Sonrisas Canary Islands. By 2024, the allocation for this concept will be increased by 10,000 euros, reaching 40,000 to, among other actions, facilitate access to decent housing for those people in vulnerable situations, always in coordination with the social workers of the Local administration, collect a note.
The high demand for social emergency housing, together with the repeated non-compliance with the deadlines linked to the occupation of existing public flats in the city, has made the City Council get to work to regularize a situation that, “due to political interest or due to neglect of functions of some rulers, it has always remained in the background, benefiting in an incomprehensible way a small number of residents compared to a large majority, also with serious economic, social and health problems,” underlines Jose Caro.
The eleven adult owners affected by the ongoing file currently reside in four homes, located in the San Juan Perales neighborhood and on Vereda Fiscal street. Social Services has already contacted all of them to register as applicants for public housing. Government of the Canary Islands. It is expected that in the coming days the corresponding meetings can be held to assess the current situation of each family and the solutions for each of them.
