Over four years after the signing of the agreement between the Cabildo of La Gomera and Visocan, none of the promised homes have been delivered. The public investment amounts to 22 million euros.
The insular coordinator of Iniciativa por La Gomera (IxLG), Alejandro García Vera, denounced this Thursday that the island will enter July 2026 without a single home being delivered from those promoted through the agreement signed between the Insular Cabildo of La Gomera and the public company Visocan. The announced public investment exceeds 22 million euros.
Unfulfilled promises and expired deadlines
García Vera recalled that on January 28, 2026, the ASG government group announced that “the first homes will be delivered in Vallehermoso next April and the project and work for the 36 homes in Tecina will be put out to tender in the next 15 days.” However, not only did April end without any delivery, but July has already begun and not a single home has been made available to the families of La Gomera.
“More than four years have passed, over 22 million euros of public money have been spent, and we still have not delivered a single home. The only things that have grown during this time are the announcements, the figures of homes that will someday - no one knows when - arrive, the promises and the press releases, while families continue to wait for a response to one of the island's main problems,” stated García Vera.
An alternative rejected by the insular government
From IxLG, they remind that they already proposed alternatives to expedite the promotion of public housing through the creation of an insular housing consortium that would allow coordination of efforts between different administrations and also promote the rehabilitation of homes in rural areas. In 2022, the two insular councillors of IxLG in the Cabildo proposed a motion for its implementation, a formula permitted by Canary Islands legislation that would have been much more effective, integrating the Cabildo and municipalities as promoters within the same structure, allowing for land transfer and the construction of protected housing for social rent, as well as rehabilitation actions in rural areas in a much more agile manner. However, this initiative was rejected by ASG - with an absolute majority - in the Insular Cabildo.
For García Vera, the lack of results forces the government group to provide public explanations about the real status of each of the promotions, the destination of the funds already transferred, and the specific timelines for the promised homes to stop being announcements and become a reality.
The insular coordinator emphasized that more than four years have passed since the signing of the agreement between the Cabildo and Visocan, during which time the insular institution, through its president Casimiro Curbelo, has publicly boasted repeatedly about an investment of over 22 million euros of public funds to the regional public company, controlled by the same political party that governs the Cabildo and participates in the Government of the Canary Islands, without any of the announced homes being delivered to date.
“Housing is one of the main concerns of the people of La Gomera and deserves much more than institutional propaganda. After more than four years and a public investment exceeding 22 million euros, the minimum that can be demanded is that there are results and that families can finally access the homes they have been waiting for so long,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, the residents of La Gomera continue to wait for a solution to a problem that worsens as the months go by. The next move, according to IxLG, should be the public appearance of the president of the Cabildo to provide detailed explanations.
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