The Councilor for Housing of Arrecife, María Jesús Tovar, held a meeting with the general director of the Canarian Housing Institute, María Isabel Santana Marrero, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on Wednesday morning.
In this meeting, the City Council's request was transferred for the Government of the Canary Islands to launch, as a priority, the project and tender for the promotion of the first 200 social houses destined for families residing in the capital of Lanzarote, an island in which "no public housing initiatives have been launched in the last three decades".
The City Council highlights that one of the first actions of Ástrid Pérez as mayor last summer was to activate the administrative file for the correct transfer of municipal land destined for the construction of public and social housing and it is stated that the Government of the Canary Islands, through the Canarian Housing Institute, has already received these plots in Maneje.
ARUS of Valterra and Titerroy
In Wednesday's meeting, Arrecife also discussed how to articulate the ways to sign a new agreement between the City Council, the Government of the Canary Islands and the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda that allows the ARUS of the neighborhoods of Titerroy and Valterra to be launched.
In this regard, the City Council recalls that, in the previous mandate, with the areas of Urban Planning and Finance managed by the Canarian Coalition (2017) "the economic aid had to be reimbursed because these works were not carried out".
In this sense, the mayor of Arrecife and also a parliamentarian for La Graciosa and Lanzarote, Ástrid Pérez, questioned the Parliament of the Canary Islands last February to launch these ARUS. After that, the Minister of Housing of the Canarian Government, Sebastián Franquis, pledged to achieve before the Central Government the financing that allows, via a state housing agreement, the reconstruction of this group of social houses in Titerroy and Valterra.
