The Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing, Sebastián Franquis, pledged this Tuesday in the Parliament of the Canary Islands and before the deputy and also mayor of Arrecife, to manage before the Government of Spain the recovery of the funds that were never used to finance the urban rehabilitation and renovation areas (ARUS) of the Valterra and Titerroy neighborhoods.
"As far as these two renovation areas are concerned, we have to start from scratch," Franquis said in parliament. "That is why I commit before this chamber, and publicly, to coordinate and work jointly with the Arrecife city council to find a solution that benefits the real affected, who are the residents who live in these homes," he said.
The minister announced that a meeting is already planned in the coming weeks with the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda to discuss various issues related to housing on the islands, and it will be in that forum that he will raise the need to resume these two ARUS, "which affect 86 homes in both neighborhoods, which were attempted to start in 2011 and could not go ahead finally."
"I am going to that meeting precisely to work, to fight for these ARUS, even knowing that there are limitations of a legal nature, to recover and expand the agreement that existed previously with the City Council and that is now expired," Franquis pointed out from his seat.
"It is the best we can offer because mistakes are mistakes, and the management has been what it has been, but those who are not to blame for it are the people who live in those buildings. Therefore, I want to convey to the mayor and to the entire society of Arrecife, the complicity of the Government and of this minister in that we are going to put everything in our hands, all the capacity of political influence that we may have with the Government of Spain, in recovering those resources and proceeding to the rehabilitation of those homes that need it so much and whose residents are not to blame for the management of recent years," he concluded.
