The housing crisis in Spain, which has led to mobilizations across the country and the early calling of national elections, affects the autonomous communities differently. Canarias, as a touristified archipelago, and specifically Lanzarote, as a limited territory, sees access to housing for its population even more resented.
In total, the judicial bodies of Canarias registered 117 requests for the suspension of evictions due to vulnerability between January and June of this year. The courts of the islands only agreed to halt fourteen of these evictions, meaning one suspension for every ten requests.
If the calculation is made based on the resolutions issued, out of the 65 resolved cases, suspensions of evictions were only granted on fourteen occasions, two out of every ten requests. All suspensions have occurred under the Urban Leases Law and none due to mortgage foreclosure.
By judicial bodies, on the one hand, in the first six months of the year, the civil courts of Canarias received 109 requests for suspension of eviction based on the national law protecting families in situations of special vulnerability. Of the 51 requests resolved in this period, the courts only agreed to halt fourteen. This is according to data published by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
Of this approximately fifty requests resolved, in only three cases did the intervention of public administrations allow the eviction to proceed by offering aid to the affected families. According to this same situation, the Canarian public institutions did not offer temporary accommodation measures, financial aid, or public housing allocations for rent that would have allowed mediation in these evictions.
On the other hand, the criminal courts received another eight requests for suspension of evictions and resolved fourteen accumulated in the courts. In no case during those six months were eviction suspensions lifted because temporary accommodation measures, financial aid, social housing allocations for rent, or other administrative interventions were offered to the families registered.
More than 1,426 evictions in 2025, the majority in the rental market
In the first six months of 2026, a total of 270 evictions were carried out in the Canary Islands. Only between April and June, 64 families were evicted in the province of Las Palmas. The majority of these evictions occurred in rental housing.
Throughout 2025, a total of 1,426 evictions took place in the Canary Islands, 17.7% less than in the previous year. The majority of evictions occurred in the rental market. In total, 1,129 families were evicted for not being able to meet rent payments; 224 due to mortgage foreclosures, and 73 evictions for other unspecified reasons.
The eviction rate for tenants in the Canary Islands stood at 63.4 evictions per 100,000 inhabitants, and for mortgages, at ten per 100,000 residents. In contrast, the previous year recorded 78.3 evictions per 100,000 inhabitants. Both figures are above the national average, which stands at 50 and 57.4, respectively.
In the first six months of 2026, a significant reduction in these evictions was recorded. 87 were carried out for mortgage reasons and another 160 for non-payment of rent. Evictions for non-payment of rent decreased by 77% in the archipelago in the first six months of the year, a trend also registered in the rest of the country.
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