Housing

Public Works awards the drafting of protected housing projects in Yaiza and Arrecife

The Government of the Canary Islands will allocate more than three and a half million euros from the EU's Next Generation funds for 646 homes throughout the archipelago

Aerial view of Arrecife. Housing.

The Ministry of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands has provisionally awarded the drafting of the projects for 646 protected public housing units to be built in different locations throughout the Autonomous Community, as announced this Friday. Among them, Yaiza and Arrecife.

Distributed in two packages - the first with an assigned bidding budget of 2.6 million euros to cover the projects for 487 homes and the second with 927,853 euros to finance 159 - these actions will be financed through the Next Generation funds of the European Union charged to the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism, the department reports in a statement.

And it details that, contracted through the Canary Housing Institute, the projects to be drafted affect properties that are planned to be built between the municipalities of Yaiza, Santa María de Guía, La Oliva, Puerto del Rosario, Gáldar and Santa Lucía de Tirajana, in the province of Las Palmas, and Tazacorte and Guía de Isora, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the case of the first group.

Of its total budget of 2,684,784 euros, the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda will contribute 2,509,144, and the Autonomous Community the remaining 175,640, it adds.

The homes in the second group have been planned between the municipalities of Arona and Adeje, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and Arrecife and Santa Lucía de Tirajana, in the province of Las Palmas, and to pay for their projects - the Ministry specifies - will contribute 867,152 euros and the Autonomous Community 60,700 euros.