The Cabildo of Lanzarote presented a signposted bus that will travel around the island and seeks to publicize the project of the Association of People Affected by Mortgages North (Ahinor). Within the framework of this collaboration that the Island Institution and the entity maintain, this initiative is added to other actions carried out to advise and help families with difficulties and problems in housing matters.
The vehicle has key information signs so that citizens know about the initiative and can call the telephone to consult issues related to housing, evictions or bank abuses, being able to make an appointment immediately or going to the mobile office of the municipality of residence.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, and the Housing Councilor, Jorge Peñas, also met with representatives of Ahinor to reaffirm this commitment to cooperation and to address the main problems of the sector.
Corujo remarked that the Association "has the full support of the Island Council to help people who are going through unfair situations on many occasions and who are without a stable home or in a position to lose their home."
"Housing is a fundamental right and we must do everything possible to ensure that families, who frequently have young children in their care, have a home," said the president.
In the same vein, the Housing Councilor, Jorge Peñas, insisted that "the commitment of the First Island Administration to the right to housing is firm."
"We will continue to provide free legal advice to the most vulnerable families thanks to the Ahinor project, complementing the work of the lawyers on duty, trying to avoid judicial evictions without housing alternatives," he said.
More than 1,500 cases attended on the Island
The Cabildo points out that during the meeting issues such as "the shortage of rental housing or bank abuses" were discussed in detail, and the association presented a summary of the advisory work they carry out.
According to Ahinor, currently there are only "1,961 properties below 560 euros per month in the Canary Islands" and, in the case of Lanzarote, the number of available rental homes has drastically decreased, especially those with three bedrooms, which is the type of housing most used by the average family in the Islands consisting of a couple and one or two minor children in their care.
"The housing situation in Lanzarote is sensitive, as there are more and more cases of foreclosures and evictions. People deserve a quality service, advice and effective real prevention such as the one we offer from Ahinor for free," said the president of the association, Kiko Santana, during the meeting.
The Corporation explains that the Ahinor project consists of "providing free legal advice and assistance by a team of lawyers to vulnerable people and groups who suffer bank abuses such as floor clauses, IRPH, revolving cards or micro credits." "It is about avoiding judicial evictions without housing alternatives, paralyzing evictions either by foreclosure, by termination of a rental contract or by not being able to afford the monthly payments," they add from the Corporation.
For this, Ahinor has a mobile office that moves immediately when required and a physical office that is located in Rambla Medular, 99-2ºc Eurobe Building, Arrecife, through which it has attended 1,558 cases on the island. The information telephone number is 628 257 825.
