The PSOE of Lanzarote has denounced that the announcement of the tender for 200 social housing units in Maneje by Visocan comes more than two and a half years late and corresponds to the second batch of housing that the PSOE left ready and planned at the end of the last legislature.
The island secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote and congresswoman, María Dolores Corujo, stated that "we are not facing a new initiative from the current Government of the Canary Islands, but rather the second batch of social housing that we prepared, and which they have kept paralyzed while the housing emergency worsened day by day".
Corujo recalled that this delay occurs at one of the worst times for housing access in Lanzarote, "in a housing emergency situation that has been clearly aggravated by the pull effect of the Vacation Housing Law, which has led to the number of vacation homes on the island doubling, reducing the supply of residential rentals and sending prices soaring."“During these two and a half years, while the Canary Islands Government blocked projects that were already ready, many families have found it impossible to access decent housing, have been priced out of the rental market, or have had to leave the island,” he denouncedFrom the PSOE of Lanzarote, they criticize that "now they try to sell as their own management what is, in reality, a late execution of inherited work, when these homes should already be under construction.""Public housing does not allow for propaganda or unjustified delays. Every year lost has had very real social consequences for hundreds of families in Lanzarote," Corujo has stressed
The PSOE of Lanzarote recalls that at the beginning of the legislature they warned that this Government would not be capable of promoting new public housing. "What we did not imagine is that they would not even be capable of launching the public housing that the PSOE left ready, with the files prepared to move forward. They have shown an absolute inability even to execute what was inherited, while the housing emergency continued to grow."