Having said the above; the ineptitude and incompetence of the municipal technicians is clear, in Arrecife in this case, insofar as it is their responsibility to warn the authorities of the problems and circumstances of the existing infrastructures and constructions in the municipality, or those that it lacks; this as a consequence of the powers that the laws attribute to them.
That being the case, then; the decision-making and ordering of the management of resources and procedures is the responsibility of the authority: mayor and councilors of the areas in question. But also to the technicians and authorities of the Cabildo, the Government of the Canary Islands or the Government of the State, depending on who is responsible for financing or executing each of the real estate endowments or infrastructures.
An example, going off the topic of housing: La Destila School. Negligent, irresponsible and populist decision to build the new school in the same location as the previous one.
When the primitive Colegio Generalísimo Franco was built, that place was on the outskirts of Arrecife. Which, by the way, the place is not La Destila. The Generalísimo Franco School Group was built in the mid-1950s where 'the fire mill' is; it is not La Destila.
Well then. When it is time to build a new school, to replace the demolished one, it should have been built, as was done with its predecessor, on the outskirts of the urban center. In a place with easy access, which does not generate a high density of traffic on streets that were not planned for it. In a place where it would be possible to provide the school with gardens and open spaces. For example, on the margins of the Rambla Medular, in the vicinity of the Municipal Children's School. But no. The authorities at the time of the decision-making (Arrecife City Council and Education of the Government of the Canary Islands), populist and irresponsibly, allow themselves to be intimidated by a group of mothers and fathers, ignorant (in the good sense of the term) and selfish who want a school 100 meters from the door of their house.
Ask taxi drivers and those who have to transit through Eugenio D'ors and La Inés streets around 8:30, when two children enter the school, and 13:30 when they leave. Unjustified traffic chaos.
Let's go back to the houses that are falling down in Titerroy and Valterra. There has been a lack of leadership. And in Titerroy it has not been explained clearly enough what the ARU that has been intended to be done consisted of. An ARU is an Urban Renovation Area, which consists of the demolition and replacement of buildings. This was clearer in Valterra. But it was simply written on a large sign placed in the Plaza Gobernador García Hernández, in the middle of the neighborhood.
The lack of ambition and the limited knowledge of the councilors of the Arrecife City Council (the second due to lack of advice from the municipal technicians, who earn good salaries from what we pay in IBI) together with a petty political action by the Government of the Canary Islands propose the renovation of only half of the neighborhood. There are 100 of the 200 homes made more than 60 years ago with pebbles and salt water.
But, even with the stingy proposal to solve the habitability problem for half of the 200 families of Valterra; they have not even been able to carry that out.
Neither Cándido Reguera with Joel Delgado as housing councilor, nor Manuel Fajardo Feo, nor José Montelongo and much less Eva de Anta had the ambition or the management capacity to achieve the financing and the necessary action to renovate those 200 old houses in the Marqués de Valterra neighborhood, built in 1952/54 by the then Social Institute of the Navy.
A lot of talk, a lot of press conferences, a lot of blaming each other for nothing. Only so that now, under the mayoralty of Astrid Pérez, they come to tell us that nothing at all. That the money has been lost and that the matter is filed.
Remember that Astrid Pérez has been a regional deputy for the entire time (since the issue began to be discussed in 2010) and, supposedly, has been closely following the entire process.
P.D.: In the next and last installment I will tell you about the houses in Titerroy.
