The unions Sindicalistas de Base Canarias (SBC) and UGT Canarias and the associations Ashotel and AERO have requested that urgent measures be put in place to facilitate access to housing for people working in the tourism sector.
In a statement sent by the Tenerife association Ashotel, it is indicated that business and union organizations believe that "this circumstance is aggravated by the insufficient regulation of vacation homes, a modality that, they insist, is completely valid as long as it is subject to control and regulation, like the rest of the tourist offer, so that it does not continue to strain the lack of housing.
In that sense, they trust that the bill on Tourist Use of Housing, which is currently being processed in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, will meet the initial objectives with which it was designed.
They refer to the regulation of a business activity and the limitation of the conversion of residential homes into vacation homes, so that it can contribute to providing a solution to the aforementioned housing problem in the Islands and prevent the existence of unregulated tourist beds.
The note recalls that the tourism sector, more specifically the accommodation and restaurant subsectors, brings together around 140,000 workers in the Canary Islands, 76,000 in the province of Tenerife, many of whom see job opportunities frustrated by not being able to access housing at a reasonable price.
