The Socialist Group in the Arrecife City Council has denounced the vote against the mayor, Yonathan de León, and his government group (PP and CC) to a motion presented by the PSOE to support the proposals of the Government of Spain on housing and demand its urgent application by the Government of the Canary Islands.
The motion included specific measures that could alleviate the serious situation in Arrecife, where more and more young people and working families are being expelled from the real estate market, trapped by rising rents, the lack of affordable housing and the lack of public housing stock.
The councilor of the Socialist Group Cristina Duque described as "shameful and irresponsible" the mayor's rejection of a motion that simply asked for institutional support for measures that are already being promoted by the Government of Spain:
"Yonathan de León shows that he prefers to look the other way rather than face the reality of hundreds of families in Arrecife. It is unacceptable that with the way things are, they refuse even to demand the minimum from the Government of the Canary Islands."
26 years without housing
From the PSOE they remember that Lanzarote spent 26 years without building a single public house until the arrival of a socialist government with Ángel Víctor Torres. "And now we are on the way to repeating the same abandonment with a Government of the Canary Islands that refuses to apply the Housing Law, to put limits on rent or to allocate real resources to increase the public offer," they denounce.
Duque regrets that "the only proposal of CC and PP has been to allocate public funds to hire private insurance for owners who rent to young people, conveying a stigmatizing message and without addressing the real problem: the lack of housing."
Mistreatment of Valterra and Titerroy
The abandonment of the municipal government is also reflected in neighborhoods such as Valterra and Titerroy, where "they still do not provide solutions either to those who have been waiting for a rehabilitation for years or to those who have not finished seeing the ownership of their homes materialized, despite the fact that the work was done in the last legislature," denounces Duque.
The socialist motion asked to urge the Government of the Canary Islands to collaborate with the State in the new Housing Plan, increase its financing to 40%, protect the public park so that it cannot be sold, create a public database on prices and, above all, that they do not continue to block the application of the measures that already exist.
"The problem is not the lack of ideas, it is the lack of will of those who govern. Instead of fighting for solutions to reach Arrecife, Yonathan de León joins the blockade that CC and PP are imposing throughout the Canary Islands," concludes Duque.
