"The non-payment of rent aid for almost a year and the delay in the Areas of Regeneration and Urban Renovation (ARRUS) have resulted in the eviction of families who have not been able to pay their rental housing and who find that they cannot return to their homes either." This is what the spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Arrecife City Council, Dácil Garcias, denounced this Wednesday, thus blaming the City Council for these evictions.
It should be remembered that the City Council committed to providing aid for the rent of families who had to leave their homes and who were waiting for urban renewal in the neighborhoods of Titerroy and Valterra, a project that has been delayed for years due to problems in the processing of the file and the blockade that occurred due to the opposition of several residents who did not agree with the project.
Specifically, according to the spokesperson, "families have been waiting for 11 months for the City Council to deposit the rent and, unfortunately, many of them have found it impossible to face the payment alone."
Garcias now regrets that "several families who had been evicted from their homes in Titerroy are now victims of eviction for non-payment of the rental housing they occupied since then" and points out that it is a "very painful situation in which the City Council has direct responsibility, due to the delay in the rental aid that it committed to with the residents in its day."
"In the end, while they were waiting for their file to be resolved, they have encountered the worst possible outcome," adds Garcías, who stresses that the housing policy carried out by the current government group "is causing serious damage to the residents of Arrecife, since the delays in the payment of these aid are added to the fact that, to this day, the rehabilitation procedure for the homes in Titerroy and Valterra remains stalled."
For these reasons, the Popular Group does not approve of the attitude that "the PSOE-CC-PIL Government is having with the families evicted from Titerroy and Valterra" and demands that they "start the rehabilitation of these homes as soon as possible to end one of the serious problems that Arrecife has."
