The spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Ariagona González, has expressed "doubts" this Thursday about the destination of the subsidy of 1.4 million euros, granted by the first island institution to the Canary Housing Institute for the Youth Rental Voucher.
During the debate on this point, the councilor highlighted "the incongruity of allocating this subsidy to a line of aid that does not exist, since as of this Thursday the call for the Youth Rental Voucher is closed, so it could not materialize".
In addition, the Government of the Canary Islands cannot issue specific subsidies for an island, except for very specific circumstances such as those called for La Palma due to the volcano, which is not the case here, since the difficulties in accessing housing and facing the excessive increase in rents is not a problem exclusive to Lanzarote.
"We fear that in the end those 1.4 million euros will go to swell the common pot, for which the Cabildo of Lanzarote would be co-financing with the Government of the Canary Islands the subsidies destined for all the islands", explained the councilor.
Faced with the explanations of the councilor of the Housing area, that this money would be managed with a special agreement and that it would only be destined for young people from Lanzarote, the councilor reproached that the agreement between the documentation of the point under discussion was not available.
"The Socialist Group will be attentive and will monitor the final destination of this item", explained González, recalling that "they discriminate against us with the budgets and now we subsidize them".
Likewise, González reproached the Government Group for justifying this decision on the impossibility of materializing the rental aid that they had included in the General Budget of the Cabildo in time.
"They have had months to carry out this line of aid and now, when they see that they do not have time, they try to hide their inability by transferring that amount to the Government of the Canary Islands", the councilor highlighted.
In that sense, the socialist spokesperson dismissed "the justifications of the councilor of the Area, who referred to the supposed delay of the Government of Spain to authorize these subsidies". "The Cabildo does not depend on the Government of Spain to grant subsidies", the councilor recalled.
Finally, González recalled that at this moment in the Canary Islands there is a line of rental aid endowed for 2025 with 21.6 million euros that are financed 82.42% by the Government of Spain (17.8 million) and 17.58% by the Canary Islands (3.8 million).
