Coalición Canaria (CC) San Bartolomé has denounced the "hypocrisy" of the PSOE, with mayor Isidro Pérez at the helm, regarding squatting and housing after the socialist government group rejected the initiatives presented by the nationalist party in the last extraordinary plenary session, held at the request of the opposition to transfer the agreements reached in the last neighborhood meeting.
David Rocío, municipal spokesperson for CC San Bartolomé, emphasizes "the sectarian attitude of the socialists in rejecting all the proposals we presented aimed at implementing real tools to help increase the housing supply in the municipality." Likewise, he laments the "contradiction of the PSOE in publicly defending access to housing while blocking concrete measures to facilitate it."
According to Rocío, among the rejected proposals was a package of measures to mobilize empty housing and increase the housing supply in San Bartolomé, including the creation of regulations for the Municipal Housing Exchange, an adhesion agreement for owners, bases for applicants, and an incentive program.
Empty homes
In this regard, the municipal spokesperson for the Canarian nationalist party recalls that, "according to estimates published, there could be up to 1,500 empty homes in the municipality, many of which could be incorporated into the residential market with political will and appropriate tools."
David Rocío also denounces "the lack of progress in the promotion of 40 social housing units, as the City Council continues not to transfer the necessary land to the Government of the Canary Islands to make this project a reality"; as well as "the passivity of the PSOE in the face of squatting cases in the municipality, which continue to affect owners forced to continue facing expenses such as IBI, garbage fees, and utilities despite not being able to dispose of their properties."
CC San Bartolomé also criticizes the PSOE's vote against the request to draw up a map of the location of telephone antennas and a municipal regulation that orders their installation in a participatory and consensual manner. For the nationalist party CC, the systematic rejection of these neighborhood proposals "evidences the government group's lack of will to work on real solutions to the municipality's problems."