"The Teguise Town Council did not respond or did so incorrectly to the requests from the Ministry of Development and the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities regarding the availability of land for social housing and protected housing”, says Jenifer Galán, spokesperson for the PSOE of Lanzarote.
The socialist spokesperson "thus responds" to the Coalición Canaria councillor Olivia Duque, who days ago "unfoundedly criticised" the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Lanzarote for "not investing" in social housing in Teguise, she acknowledges.
According to Jenifer Galán, in order to "invest in social and protected housing" in a municipality, it is first necessary to "know the availability of land for this", she confirms, and "that was not the case in Teguise in 2019", when the Ministry of Development "tried to find out the availability of land for social housing and protected housing existing on the island", she reports.
To this end, on 28 August 2019, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote summoned the mayors of Lanzarote to a meeting in the Cabildo to be held on 5 September. After this meeting, the town councils undertook to send before 27 September some completed questionnaires on the availability of land in their municipalities for social housing and protected housing.
"The only town councils that responded in time were Haría, Tías and Yaiza"
"The only town councils that responded in a timely manner were Haría, Tías and Yaiza", she confesses. "The Teguise Town Council did so out of time, more than a week late", she makes clear.
Likewise, the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (FECAM) also "addressed all the town councils of the Canary Islands" in order to "find out their availability of land for social housing and protected housing", but Teguise "did not respond to the request", she confirms.
The CC candidate has stated that "in January 2020 an urban planning report was drawn up in relation to the land designated by the planning for protected housing in Teguise".
“This report, according to her, was brought to the attention of the institutions competent in this matter, but the truth is that neither the General Directorate of Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, nor the Housing area of the Cabildo, nor the Ministry of Development, nor the FECAM have any record of it”, concludes Galán.