SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands has begun today the assembly of the first modular homes acquired to alleviate the housing emergency caused on the island of La Palma by the eruption of the volcano.
The assembly has begun with an initial batch of five wooden houses of the 30 that were acquired by the Ministry a little more than a month ago. These houses are being installed on an urbanized plot ceded by the Los Llanos de Aridane City Council and whose ground has been leveled in recent weeks to meet the necessary conditions for this type of construction.
At this time, the operators of the supplying company are focusing their work on preparing the base on which the wooden houses will be mounted, consisting of strips of dry block, made of standard concrete, which will serve as foundations for the houses. These strips, which do not require mortar for their placement, will be installed in line on the ground creating a base for the battens (elongated pieces of wood) that will be fixed and screwed to create a flat base of moisture resistant boards.
Once this process is finished, the installation of the houses will be carried out, which are mostly three bedrooms, made of Nordic fir wood, with an area of 74 square meters built and also have a living room, kitchen, bathroom and cleanliness. Inside all of them are finished with thermal insulation and plasterboard and a laminated parquet. The Ministry expects that the work will be completed within a month.
This first batch of five homes belongs to the 30 modular homes acquired by the Ministry, through the Canarian Housing Institute (ICAVI), to face the housing emergency on the island. As the affected municipalities cede urbanized and prepared land to house these houses to the Government of the Canary Islands, the plots will be evaluated and adapted for the correct installation of these houses. It is estimated that the next batch of these homes will be installed on a plot that is currently being developed by the municipality of El Paso.
The acquisition and installation of these modular houses are integrated into what the Minister Sebastián Franquis has called the “transition phase” of care for those affected by the volcanic emergency. It is about giving a temporary home to all those families that lost their only home in the eruption, either through modular homes or with the acquisition of several lots of houses already built that is being carried out by the public company Visocan, which already It has bought 63 homes to which another 29 will soon be added. The Canarian Housing Institute is also collaborating in this phase with another 30 homes that are currently being fitted out.
The Ministry has also launched this week the creation of an extraordinary rent help line to help pay rent to those families who have lost their homes and who are renting since they were evicted, a help that will last for 36 months and that has an initial endowment of 3.2 million euros.
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