Remedios Armas had no time to react. When the La Palma volcano erupted, he ran out of his house. “I saw the column of smoke and the lava run down the hill, I practically came out with what I was wearing, and right now I have no clothes or anything, “explains Remedios. This neighbor fled in her car with her 89-year-old mother and her three children between 10 and 15 years old. She and her mother have been sleeping in a ward since Sunday. Along with 50 other people, their children are sleeping at their paternal grandmother’s house, “they insist that they want to be with me, but I don’t know what to say to them,” says Remedios in the program “Hoy por Hoy La Portada” of Cadena SER in the Canary Islands.
Remedios has been looking for rental housing since Sunday in the municipalities of Los Llanos de Aridane or Tazacorte, but so far she has had no luck. “Three floors have gotten out of hand and it’s not fair. Now they are speculating with the apartments and the rents. If they already have it for me, don’t take it away from me, “says Remedios, who also makes a desperate request to the owners of the properties,” please, don’t be like that, don’t play with the flats now. “
Housing crisis
The shortage of available rental homes on La Palma is not new, but the volcano has exacerbated the situation. Not only because many residents have been left homeless by the lava flow and are looking for a roof, but now the demand for vacation rental homes has increased.
There are already companies that organize round trips to see the new Cumbra Vieja volcano. On the internet they offer their services with the possibility of visiting the area departing from five different places on La Palma “Have you ever seen a volcano erupt? With this transfer you can go to several safe and remote areas from where you can contemplate this beauty of nature as you had never imagined “, you can read in one of those ads.
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