The deputy of the Common, Rafael Yanes, met yesterday with representatives of 50 affected families who face imminent evictions in Añaza, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, after having received a notice from Visocan that they had to abandon their homes in February 2024, when they have not been able to regularize their rental contracts with the owner company.
Yurena Rodríguez, representative of the families who had a rental contract with the previous owner, explained that after receiving the eviction notice they were offered the possibility of regularizing a new contract and managing the outstanding debts, but Visocan “refuses to reach an agreement”.
The spokesperson for vulnerable families who did not have a contract formalized in 2019, Raquel García, said that when the eviction process began they were asked to deliver documentation to an NGO that would act as a mediator but, to this day, they continue without regularizing their situation, when they do not have any housing alternative.
The Common deputy stated that he will go to the capital’s City Council to find out what rental aid has been promised for the neighbors and to Visocan to find out its willingness to formalize a new rental contract starting in February and follow up on each of the cases. .
For its part, Visocan denied having filed an eviction lawsuit against any of the 50 Añaza tenants with a rental contract with the previous owner who have not wanted to regularize their situation and described the information offered by the Common Deputy as “uncertain.”
He stressed that on repeated occasions he has tried to get the 50 tenants with a rental contract with the previous owner to regularize their situation, and recalled that “he bought the 358 homes in Añaza in 2019 and 75% of the neighbors have already signed the lease.”
