2023-11-11 22:45:20
Rents through the roof, difficulties in accessing a mortgage and empty homes everywhere. That is the portrait of the housing problem that the Canary Islands suffers and that since College of Architects TenerifeLa Gomera and El Hierro urgently need to solve through a great social pact for housing. The professionals They ask political forces, social agents and other sectors involved to develop a plan with sufficient financial and human resources to end homelessness in the Archipelago –which, according to the developer Culmia, amounts to a deficit of 46,000 apartments in social rental–. A mess that compromises access to a basic right recognized by the Spanish Constitution in its article 47.
The measures demanded by the architects must have a long-term validity and go “beyond a parliamentary legislature”, since only in this way will it be possible to act “effectively” in the face of the unsatisfied demand for roofs that exists in some areas of the Islands. Professionals also consider that this absence of residential supply in the Canary Islands “continues to grow” and that “it has worsened with the entry into force of the new state law.” To serve as a reflection of the effects of the rule, a fact: the rental supply has sunk in the Canary Islands by 40% after its entry into force, on May 26, as reflected in the latest study prepared by the National Federation of Real Estate Associations.
Given the magnitude of the problem, professionals demand “continuous monitoring” of the housing situation that exists on each island, in order to have reliable and quality information with which to later make decisions. Among those measures to take, for example, architects focus on those of an urban nature: «Local administrations must facilitate and simplify the production of land in conditions of being used for the massive construction of housing»request.
To the shortage of houses to rent, we must add how difficult access to mortgages has become with the progressive rise in interest rates – which the European Central Bank raised to 4.5% in September to confront inflation. –. Furthermore, citizens who have a mortgage on the Islands are drowning, since Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria are among the ten Spanish cities in which citizens have to allocate the most money to paying the mortgage, 34% and 25% of their salaries respectivelyaccording to data from the latest quarterly report prepared by the Tinsa Group.
The Common Council, headed by Rafael Yanes, also joined the request for a housing pact. whose Extraordinary Report on the Housing Situation in the Canary Islands from a Social Perspective In September, it brought to light the deficiencies in the community’s policies on this matter. Yanes considers that There are “important gaps” in the current Canary Islands Housing Plan 2020-2025 that have resulted in an execution of only 5% of it.
The same report from the Provincial Council also showed the failure of the empty housing plan in the Canary Islands, which in more than a year of operation only managed to get one house put up for social rent. And that, the public Administration established compensation for owners who chose to register their homes on the stock market, such as financial aid or multi-risk insurance.
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