Manuel Marrero, spokesperson for the Sí Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group and the Housing Committee of the regional Chamber, has stated that the public company Visocan "is currently merely a rent collector" of the public housing it manages, so he affirms that the Government of the Pact of Progress must undertake a "profound reform of this body".
"Visocan has lost, during the times of crisis in which no housing was built, its true reason for being, so the Canarian Housing Institute must turn it into an efficient instrument that promptly addresses, without so much bureaucracy, the housing requests of the people who need it," Marrero stated.
The parliamentary spokesperson, who participated this Friday in Lanzarote in the meeting 'Social and political pact for the right to access decent housing in the Canary Islands', organized by Podemos Canarias in collaboration with the Círculo de Feminismos Lanzarote Podemos, insisted to the attendees that "when people are homeless, when they face evictions, they cannot be waiting for a long bureaucratic process".
"Housing is a human right, and therefore the Government of the Canary Islands must guarantee that no one is left without a roof, whether they are natural, from outside, legal or illegal," he insisted.
Therefore, Marrero recalled that within the 'Pact of the Flowers' signed in July to form the current quadripartite Government of the Canary Islands, an urgent housing plan was included "to end the inaction" of the previous cabinet of the Canarian Coalition.
"There are hundreds of thousands of empty homes in the Canary Islands and there are many people who do not have a home, and that is why the Government is committed to enabling them to be public," he stated.
In this sense, he assured that it is not necessary to build new homes and, in addition, he emphasized promoting rehabilitation and that they be "used for social rent, it does not have to be owned".
Finally, he insisted that the Government "does not promote the creation of 'ghettos', segregating homes in certain neighborhoods or areas, but rather betting on the integration of young people with older people and different social classes so that they coexist naturally"
