The Association of Businessmen Developers and Builders of Las Palmas (AECP) has asked this Thursday "to look for money even under the rocks" for housing because the Canary Islands, where there is a deficit of 32,000 because only 2,900 are executed per year, "50,000 will be needed from now until 2030".
This was stated at a press conference by the president of the employers' association, Salud Gil, who lamented that the difficulties faced by not only vulnerable families, but also middle-income families, in accessing affordable housing in the islands is "an object of political bickering, instead of a State matter, as it should be".
Gil has emphasized the need to seek funds to tackle the "solvency problem" in the Canary Islands, for which she said that "there is no need to invent anything", but rather to recover formulas such as those of the national housing plans "that worked best, those promoted between 1981 and 1999", which articulated agreed loans, both for developers and for acquirers, and direct aid to entry, among other measures that favored the construction of real estate.
The president of the AECP has stressed that the lack of housing is affecting the provision of services in the Canary Islands and has considered that the accumulated deficit is due to "a serious management problem" in this matter, the responsibility of the autonomous community.
At the same time, she stressed that the current regional government has laid the foundations to speed up the production, rehabilitation and completion of real estate, given the housing emergency in the archipelago, although she stressed that "the budgets for housing must be quadrupled".
To this end, the employers' association proposes to "scratch from idle funds" from all regional departments, make use of all available European funds and also demand that the State "send to the Canary Islands the part that corresponds to it of the new housing measures that it is announcing", since this region "is laying the foundations on which a new way of doing politics" in this area will be based, "in full cooperation with private initiative".
In any case, the AECP raises the need to promote the right of surface to expand the rental housing stock, both by making public land available and through the business contribution of the Reserve for Investments in the Canary Islands (RIC).
Similarly, they advocate that the public company Visocan acquire properties from unfinished buildings or from rehabilitation and that it become "the manager of the lease of homes resulting from the private promotion of subsidized housing", for which it needs to be provided with more budget.
Another formula proposed by the builders of Las Palmas is that of concerted housing, "free and available at affordable prices".
For this business association, housing plans "have been gradually filled with text and concepts and emptied budgetarily".
In order to reduce the "14 tax steps" that the construction of a home goes through before being delivered, the AECP also proposes to promote basic licenses, prior to urban licenses and that can be processed in thirty days, which would allow to start executing.
Convinced that "there is money to burn", the builders and developers of the eastern province demand "that it be put at the service of this problem".