The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, who is also a councilor on the Cabildo, celebrated this Tuesday in a press release that the Canary Islands Housing Institute (ICAVI) will receive the 42 social housing units in Playa Blanca. These homes were acquired in January 2025 following an agreement between ICAVI and the Cabildo of Lanzarote, but almost a year later they have not yet been distributed, awaiting this bureaucratic procedure.
Noda has asserted that it was the Yaiza City Council that, in January 2024, proposed to the Government presided over by Fernando Clavijo that it acquire a development of 76 homes being built in Playa Blanca for social rental. Subsequently, the mayor met with the Canarian president after the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands published the specific agreement for the acquisition of 42 homes built in the Los Ajaches residential complex in Playa Blanca intended for affordable rental.
The next plenary session of the Cabildo de Lanzarote will approve the transfer of the homes to ICAVI so that, through the public company Visocan, these properties can be distributed. One of the requirements to access these homes is to be registered as a social housing applicant in the archipelago. The mayor of Yaiza indicates that "reports on needs and personal circumstances will be taken into account, prioritizing cases of vulnerability, seeking to meet social demand in the municipality of Yaiza"
Yaiza Mayor's Reaction
Noda has celebrated this news "almost seven hundred days after" proposing to the Government of the Canary Islands the acquisition of this development. "This final step is excellent news for Yaiza and for Lanzarote," adds Óscar Noda, who congratulates Yaiza for finally seeing this idea, which I proposed almost two years ago, become a reality. During all this time we have had to insist with the different higher administrations on this matter and, finally, it has come to fruition for the benefit of many families in our municipality," concludes the mayor of Yaiza and island councilor, Óscar Noda.
The 136 social housing units in Playa Blanca, waiting
Óscar Noda thanked Clavijo for that investment, co-financed by the autonomous community and the island's main institution, which represented a real boost to the *Canary Islands Housing Plan 2020-2025* in the municipality. He also requested swift action on the project to build 136 homes for social rent on a 42,000-square-meter plot ceded by the City Council in Montaña Roja, Playa Blanca. Almost a year later, with Oswaldo Betancort now as president of the Cabildo, Óscar Noda was forced to reiterate the need to purchase the aforementioned homes. Fortunately, the Cabildo decided to purchase the homes.