The Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis, announced this Tuesday that at the beginning of October the first homes will be available for the citizens of La Palma who have lost their homes due to the volcanic eruption. Over the next month, between 97 and 107 homes that the Government of the Canary Islands will acquire urgently through the public company Visocan may be made available to the victims, the counselor has informed the plenary session of the Autonomous Parliament.
The calculation is that until the end of the year the available homes will be between 267 and 300, added Franquis.
Franquis has specified that these are homes bought by the Government that are made temporarily available to people who have lost their homes until “the structural problem” that will involve the reconstruction of the damage is solved.
An agreement has been signed to hire fifteen social workers who will carry out an evaluation of the affected families, their situation and needs, he explained.
The first action of the Government of the Canary Islands has been to accommodate homeless people in hotels, then the purchase of houses and “if the matter gets complicated” prefabricated houses would be installed, the counselor has guaranteed.
It has also announced that the Ministry of Social Rights in coordination with the Department of Housing will provide aid for the furniture of the homes.
Sebastián Franquis has also explained that there are already Public Works technicians on the ground studying each of the affected roads and the way so that the island can recover normality as soon as possible once the emergency passes.
“We are acting quickly” and in coordination with all administrations, he stressed.
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