The Fuerteventura Island Council is promoting a housing strategy focused on recovering unfinished constructions and abandoned buildings, rather than urban expansion. This initiative aims to alleviate the high demand for homes on the island and protect the natural environment.
The insular president, Lola García, explained that the solution to the housing crisis is not limited to building new units but also involves reducing costs, optimizing available land, rehabilitating existing built heritage, and coordinating public policies for structural intervention in the market.
As part of this strategy, the insular Corporation has collaborated with the island's six municipalities to inventory abandoned buildings, developments, and infrastructures on urban or developable land. The goal is to quantify those that can meet the real housing demand and assess their technical-legal status.
This fieldwork has yielded detailed reports indicating the existence of nearly thirty unfinished or disused constructions spread across various municipalities. García stated that the next step is to analyze the legal feasibility of these infrastructures for their potential adaptation into housing, estimating that hundreds of units could be added to the housing stock.
The insular president will present this document to the relevant Government of the Canary Islands minister, Pablo Rodríguez, at a meeting scheduled for this Monday, August 3rd. The encounter aims to foster inter-administrative cooperation and secure the necessary funding to include these projects in the regional budgets for 2027.
The insular Corporation reaffirms its commitment to a public, social, and sustainable housing policy based on institutional cooperation. The objective is to offer effective housing solutions to the citizens of Fuerteventura, avoiding speculation and the "pull effect," and promoting a more habitable and territory-respectful island.
