The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León (Popular Party), spoke this Wednesday on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero to explain what has happened with the 200 homes that have been left unbuilt in the Maneje neighborhood, in the capital of the island.
It should be remembered that the Arrecife City Council ceded to the Government of the Canary Islands during the last legislature a plot with capacity for 400 homes, but that, for the moment, only half are being built, 201. One of these plots, the one that is advanced, is managed by the Canarian Housing Institute (ICAVI), while the other is in the hands of the Canarian public entity Visocan.
"If Visocan is not going to build it, we will revert the land and put it out in surface rights so that any developer, construction company can build and exploit it during the 75 years allowed by law," said de León, who plans to copy the modus operandi of the Government of Madrid, led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP) and which has also been promoted by the Canarian Government, led by Coalición Canaria and the PP, since the beginning of the legislature.
The right to the surface, included in state legislation, allows private operators to be given public land to build homes and exploit it for a period of 75 years.
During his intervention in the program Buenos días, Lanzarote, de León pointed out that, as La Voz advanced, the first three lots with those 201 homes should be completed "at the beginning of 2026", with a delay of one year, with respect to the initial term.
"We are working on that line to unblock those 200 homes and in parallel we are holding meetings with construction companies, with landowners in Arrecife that allow the construction of these social homes."