The deputy mayor and Councilor for Contracting of Arrecife City Council, Echedey Eugenio (Canarian Coalition), has signed this Wednesday the decree that initiates the process to tender the rehabilitation works of four homes and the partial demolition and reconstruction of a fifth, the one located at Timbayba street number 40, where a young man died in 2009 after the ceiling of the room he was in collapsed.
This tender goes out to public competition after the previous one, which sought to rehabilitate two properties, including the one at number, was declared void. The capital's council hopes to thus unblock a file that has been pending since the death of a young man almost seventeen years ago. Many people who were evicted after the collapse have died without being able to return to their homes. Among them, the resident of Titerroy Candelaria Díaz, mother of the young man who lost his life in that collapse, who passed away last August 2025 without returning to her home.
As anticipated by La Voz in January, the council puts on the table a base budget of 512,634.88 euros, plus 35,884.45 euros of IGIC, financed with subsidies from the Canarian Housing Institute of the Government of the Canary Islands, to try to find a company to carry out the work. The council has thus unified two budget items to tackle the work on five homes, while the owners of the other two that were also evacuated have renounced their rehabilitation.
The project, which now goes out to tender through an open procedure, has a base budget of 512,634.88 euros, plus 35,884.45 euros of IGIC, and is financed through subsidies from the Canary Islands Housing Institute of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The planned actions include four different interventions: The rehabilitation of a dwelling on Timbayba street, 34; the partial demolition and subsequent reconstruction of the dwelling located at Timbayba, 40, where the collapse occurred that caused the eviction of the properties; and the rehabilitation of three additional dwellings in the same neighborhood environment.
The deputy mayor and councillor for Finance and Contracting, Echedey Eugenio, underlines that this decree represents the key administrative step for the works to be able to begin, definitively unblocking a file long awaited by the residents of the neighborhood.
“With this decree, we initiate the contracting procedure to execute a much-awaited action. We are talking about homes that have been closed for too many years and families that have been waiting too long for a solution. From the Contracting area, we have worked to ensure that the file is complete and that we can tender these works as soon as possible.”
For his part, the Councillor for Housing, Rosmen Quevedo, highlights that the City Council has coordinated different lines of financing to be able to undertake the comprehensive rehabilitation of these properties.
“This intervention is a priority for the Housing area because it responds to a historical debt with the residents of Titerroy. We have managed to gather different subsidies to make a project viable that will allow the rehabilitation of four homes and the reconstruction of another, restoring security and dignity to these houses”.
