Astrid Pérez asks the Canary Islands Government what plans and funding it will allocate to the ARUs of Valterra and Titerroy

As a parliamentarian, she questioned this Tuesday the Minister of Housing of the Regional Executive so that priority is given to the rehabilitation of this group of homes

February 18 2020 (19:00 WET)
Astrid Pérez asks the Canary Islands Government what plans and funding it will allocate to the ARUS of Valterra and Titerroy
Astrid Pérez asks the Canary Islands Government what plans and funding it will allocate to the ARUS of Valterra and Titerroy

PP parliamentarian for the islands of La Graciosa and Lanzarote and mayor of Arrecife, Ástrid Pérez, asked the Canary Islands Government this Tuesday about the plans and funding it will allocate to the rehabilitation of the Valterra and Titerroy housing groups.

Astrid Pérez has questioned in the Parliament of the Canary Islands the Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing, Sebastián Franquis, and has conveyed his concern about the "comprehensive rehabilitation actions in Arrecife, specifically for the actions of the Urban Renewal Area of Valterra and Titerroy", which "were included in the state housing plan 2009-2012".

The mayor of Arrecife also reminded the Minister of Housing that "in 2011 two agreements were signed in which a total of 20 million euros were committed, for the renovation of the 100 homes in Valterra (12,030,361.62 euros) and for the 66 homes in Titerroy (8,219,108.66 euros) in four annual installments and until 2015". In this regard, Astrid Pérez remarked that, "in December 2017, the administrations of the Canary Islands and the then government of Arrecife forgot to request the extension and hung up the end sign".

In addition, the parliamentarian revealed in Parliament that "as a result of that neglect by the previous rulers, these ARUs of Valterra and Titerroy were not incorporated into the new State Housing agreement for the period 2018-2021". "Now, therefore," unless you have information that I am unaware of, we are starting ten years later with zero euros for these necessary social housing units that have been built since the 50s of the last century", he said.

"We cannot lose another day"


Pérez denounced today in the Parliament of the Canary Islands that "166 homes, 166 families have been waiting for years, more than 10 years, for the rehabilitation of their homes, homes that are more than 50 years old with serious structural problems, some of those homes propped up for too many years".

The popular has stated that she has visited some of those homes. "You cannot imagine the anguish of seeing how some have each and every one of the rooms propped up, and how those families live daily with the fear that their home will collapse while they sleep. We have already experienced it, there have already been collapses of ceilings with deaths", she emphasized. "We also do not forget the six families evicted from their homes more than 8 years ago", she added in her speech.

"We are aware that serious errors have been committed in the past by the Arrecife City Council and also by the Canary Islands Government, but our responsibility begins now and we cannot lose another day in getting to work so that these urban renewal areas can be executed in these neighborhoods of Arrecife in the shortest possible time", Ástrid Pérez pointed out.

In this sense, the parliamentarian challenged the regional minister to achieve "a real, urgent commitment from the Canary Islands Government, from its Minister of Housing, to negotiate immediately with the Government of Spain the start of the processing of the new file and the necessary signatures of the new agreement with the Ministry because we cannot lose another day in the urban renewal of Valterra and Titerroy".

Most read