Yonathan de León visited this Thursday morning, November 9, the construction works of 131 social houses in the neighborhood of Maneje, on plots ceded by the capital's City Council to the Government of the Canary Islands. Works with an estimated duration of "twenty months", so they could be finished and ready to be delivered in the spring of 2025.
These 134 homes, already under construction, are part of a batch of 201 new homes that will be built in Maneje, and will be distributed in two adjoining buildings of 67 properties each located on plots ceded by the Arrecife City Council, to ICAVI, in 2020, during the previous term, with Mayor Astrid Pérez.
In the visit to the execution of these works for the new public housing that is being launched on the island, de León, has been together with the Minister of Public Works and Housing and Mobility of the Government of the Canary Islands, Pablo Rodríguez, Oswaldo Betancort, the vice president and Minister of Public Works, Jacobo Medina, and the director of the Canary Islands Housing Institute, Antonio Ortega.
Together with these 134 homes, a third building with "67 more protected homes until completing the 201 homes" that the 'Canary Islands Housing Plan' has underway in the Maneje neighborhood, on the public land ceded by the Arrecife City Council in 2020.
By typology, "10% of the new homes have one bedroom", "20% have two bedrooms", "60% have three bedrooms", and another "10% have four bedrooms". Likewise, within the corresponding quotas of two and three bedrooms are "six homes for people with reduced mobility" and "three supervised homes with five bedrooms". All homes have a parking space and a storage room located in the corresponding basements of each of the buildings. These basements will be connected to each other, thus complying with municipal urban planning regulations.
ICAVI, whose director was present at the visit this Thursday, estimates that the construction cost of these first two buildings will be "19,614,474 euros". These three buildings will be built on plots of "2,540 square meters" each.
