The Official Gazette of the Canary Islands published on January 7 the acquisition of 42 homes already built in the Los Ajaches residential area of Playa Blanca, which will be used for affordable rent. This agreement was reached through an investment co-financed between the Autonomous Community and the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, thanks the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, for his "impulse" to the Canary Islands Housing Plan 2020 - 2025 and requests "speed" to the construction project of the 136 homes for social rent on the 42,000 square meter plot ceded by the City Council in Montaña Roja, Playa Blanca: "All projects that increase the public housing stock are urgent."
Óscar Noda reports that "we maintain very good administrative cooperation relations with the Canary Islands Housing Institute and this Monday, January 13, we sent the urban planning compliance report of the basic plot urbanization project and construction of those 136 homes, of more than 50 square meters of useful surface area, so that the Government can finalize the drafting of the execution project and put the works out to tender."
The mayor recalls that "on the day of the visit I made in March with the president to the plot in Montaña Roja, I proposed the purchase of units in the Los Ajaches residential area as an emergency alternative to alleviate the lack of housing in the most populated nucleus of our municipality, while the project for the hundred houses on the land ceded to the Government is put out to tender and built."
Noda adds that "two months later, last May, the president confirmed to me in a meeting held in Tenerife that he would make the purchase of the first homes effective, so from Yaiza we encourage him to continue with the housing investment plan, attending to this formula and accelerating at the same time the new construction projects."
In 2018, Yaiza granted a license for 33 homes under the private promotion protected housing regime, the first phase of the Los Ajaches residential area, and it did so with a favorable report from the Canary Islands Housing Institute, which certified that the project met the habitability conditions established by current regulations.
The City Council urged Club Lanzarote, through the tool of the Yaiza Supplementary General Planning Plan, to reserve a plot for the construction of buildings under the private promotion protected housing regime in Montaña Roja, a project that added up to 256 houses in all its phases.
The mayor of Yaiza maintains that "the Government knows that housing is a priority, as is the construction of the IES Playa Blanca, for which we have already had meetings with the Ministry of Education, as is also the pressing demand for the Family Respite Center. In that line, we presented amendments to the Budgets of the Autonomous Community 2025."
