The PSOE has demanded that the Minister of Housing of the Canary Islands Government be more involved in the regulation of vacation rentals, in the appearance of Cristina Valido before the Plenary of the Chamber.
The spokesperson for the Socialist Group, María Dolores Corujo, pointed out during her speech that "vacation rentals cannot be answered only from the perspective of their regulation as a tourist modality, due to the enormous impact of this new figure on the housing rental market in the Canary Islands.
Corujo recalled that "the main problem, as of today, is not the evictions derived from mortgage foreclosures, but those that occur as a consequence of the inability of families to face rents and has indicated that this is not a temporary situation".
For the spokesperson of the Socialist Party, "the root of the problem is that vacation rentals put upward pressure on rental prices of homes, while the capacity of families has decreased due to low wages, excessive temporality and the unemployment rate."
"The Government of the Canary Islands cannot continue to be a passive spectator of this reality. The Government of the Canary Islands cannot continue to give the impression that it has nothing to do with what is happening and that it has nothing to do to remedy it," Corujo reproached, recalling that Clavijo has renounced to lead an agreement for the improvement of salaries and the stability of the staff, for which the Canarian families see diminished their capacity to face the continuous increases of the price of the rent.
According to Corujo, "this inactivity is aggravated when one also renounces to intervene in the housing supply." "The Government and the Minister have neglected to update the housing law; they have opposed the acquisition of large lots of closed houses owned by banks or vulture funds; they have been unable, within their touted package of tax cuts, to introduce any measure to reduce access to housing for the most disadvantaged," the socialist spokesperson reproached.
"Now, when it finally seems that this Government assumes the challenge of trying to regulate vacation rentals, after the judicial setbacks suffered, it is surprising that at no time has the Minister spoken about the consequences that the new regulation will have on access to housing," Corujo concluded.