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Demonstration in Tenerife for the right to housing and against speculation

The Tenants' Union calls for a protest on June 27 in La Laguna to demand measures against the housing crisis.

Generic image of a housing rights demonstration in the Canary Islands.
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Generic image of a housing rights demonstration in the Canary Islands.

On June 27, the Tenants' Union of Tenerife has called for a demonstration in La Laguna to defend the right to housing and denounce real estate speculation.

The Tenants' Union of Tenerife has called for a demonstration on June 27 with the aim of defending the right to housing and denouncing the advance of real estate speculation. According to the union, this speculation continues to displace residents, workers, and families from their neighborhoods and municipalities.
The mobilization will focus on La Laguna, a municipality that, according to the statement issued by the union, clearly symbolizes the impact of the housing crisis affecting Canary Islands and the associated speculative logics. This initiative arises in a context of an increasingly severe housing emergency on the islands, where access to decent housing has become a primary concern for the working class.
The Union criticizes that the current housing system responds to a structural logic subordinated to economic profitability, speculative investment, and the commodification of territory, prioritizing private profit over the fundamental right to housing.
Among the main demands of the call are the immediate declaration of rent-controlled areas and the consequent rent cap in municipalities such as La Laguna or Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the rising cost of housing is causing the displacement of residents and working families.
Furthermore, it advocates for an effective policy to recover vacant housing, especially that accumulated by large holders, through fiscal pressure mechanisms and tax increases to encourage its incorporation into the residential market. The union rejects models such as the vacant housing pool promoted by the Government of the Canary Islands, which it considers based on voluntariness and insufficient fiscal incentives.
The organization also calls for a ban on the purchase of second homes by speculative capital, both national and foreign, arguing that territory and housing should not be mere financial assets. A decisive expansion of the public housing stock is considered essential, prioritizing its social function and its allocation to affordable rent or permanently protected housing.
The June 27 mobilization seeks to create a new space for social pressure and collective organization against a housing model that, according to the Tenants' Union, benefits speculation at the expense of the right to housing.

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