The legal advice of the Arrecife City Council is involved as an intervening party in the judicial procedure that the Court of First Instance number 4 of the capital of Lanzarote is pursuing against several families in the neighborhood of San Francisco Javier.
As La Voz has learned, the capital's council already issued several vulnerability reports on its residents in 2022. This procedure is common in this type of judicial eviction case. In this way, the Social Services of the capital transmit to the Court the social and economic reality of the families living in these properties.
In this case, the eviction procedure of two blocks of houses located on Jaime I Street in San Francisco Javier affects at least 15 families. In an interview with this editorial team, the occupants have reported that there are five minors living in these houses and several sick people. There is also a woman who is a victim of gender violence, with a current restraining order against her aggressor.
"Let the City Council come and talk to us and let us reach an agreement to pay. I'm not going to go out on the street with my daughter and I'm not going to leave my daughter in anyone's house," says Inés (fictitious name) in statements to La Voz. This neighbor asks the Arrecife City Council to mediate so that she does not have to live in the car and have to leave her daughter in a stranger's house.
The big problem of housing
For years, Lanzarote, like the rest of the country, has entered a housing crisis, where the prices of rents and housing for sale continue to grow. This situation is further aggravated because local public institutions spent more than 30 years without building protected or social housing, a mechanism to control part of the market and ensure that prices do not rise exorbitantly.
Although in recent years several construction projects for protected housing on the island have been given the green light, they are insufficient to meet the demand. Some workers in Lanzarote have already decided to live in motorhomes to alleviate the housing crisis.
