The evicted residents of the Titerroy neighborhood, in Arrecife, have reported that, a month after meeting with the Housing Department of the Arrecife City Council, they still have doubts regarding the future rehabilitation of their homes and do not yet have the documentation related to them.
As they have conveyed through a statement, last month they held a meeting with the head of the aforementioned area, Eduardo Placeres, "which only served to generate more doubts", since the residents claim to have requested a copy of the papers for their houses up to three times and still do not have it in their possession: "They continue to laugh at us", they state.
The affected parties explain that two months after taking office, the councilor "began by publicly lying, saying that he was going to go house by house explaining the situation of the residents, but to this day, Placeres does not know where the affected residents live and which houses they are".
Likewise, they indicate that, beyond that, the city council "cannot explain any project because it lacks one" since it was the city council itself that requested the Government of the Canary Islands to carry out the project for the affected homes.
In the opinion of the residents, the mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, has given up, since "now she invents creating a Working Table, but creating said table would be like putting a motion of censure on her own party colleague and current Housing Councilor."
The issuers of the statement blame the Popular Party in Lanzarote and the Canary Islands for "not wanting to move forward with this issue as important as the residents returning to their homes."
Context
The users explain that it is necessary to go back to the past to understand this issue, specifically to 2014, to a meeting, promoted by the Titerroy neighborhood association, where the Lanzarote deputies Ástrid Pérez (PP), Fabián Martín (PIL), Manuel Fajardo Palarea (PSOE) and David de la Hoz, Juan Pedro Hernández, Isaac Castellano (Canarian Nationalist Group) and the Minister of Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, Inés Rojas, attended.
There, these political leaders pledged to sign a letter requesting a meeting with the affected residents from the Ministry of Housing, with the Popular Party being the only force that did not contribute to this request.
Based on this, the residents say they feel "deceived" by the PP: "They lied to us in 2019, in the pre-election campaign, when the mayor said that the only way to guarantee that the rehabilitation of the houses in Valterra and Titerroy would go ahead would be with a popular government and they continue to lie to this day because the issue remains unresolved."
"The mayor cannot continue playing with something as serious as human lives"
These users state that "they are not going to continue allowing the mayor to continue playing with something as serious as human lives": "What Astrid Pérez should do is start working seriously for the affected residents, whom she has never wanted to receive, and stop refusing to hand over the public documentation on the management of the homes in Valterra and Titerroy".
Likewise, they argue that they were "surprised" by the news that the Popular Party presented a motion in the Island Council of Lanzarote on these houses, which they consider "a lack of respect, since this is the duty of the city council and not of the Island Council."
They conclude by recalling that if Pérez wants the inhabitants of Titerroy to believe her, "she must show us and give us everything in official documentation".