Nueva Canarias (NC-bc) considered this Monday that the Mogán City Council should change course in its housing policy and directly assume the construction of future public housing developments in the municipality. This was stated this Monday by Nationalist councilor Juan Manuel Gabella after the municipal plenary session confirmed that the public tender initiated by Mayor Onalia Bueno, based on the surface right model, had been declared void.
No company submitted bids before the May 28 deadline for bidding. As the mayor herself explained during the plenary session, the lack of profitability for private sector initiatives, even in areas like Puerto Rico, was a determining factor in this outcome. The nationalist opposition was not surprised: NC had already expressed doubts about the viability of the chosen model in December 2024 and in the February 2025 plenary session.
Councilman Gabella then insisted that handing over the management of public land to private companies represented an unnecessary "dispossession" of property rights and warned that the formula did not guarantee equal access to housing. He also proposed that the City Council directly build the housing in El Horno and Veneguera, applying the right of way only in Puerto Rico, an intermediate option that was ignored by the governing group.
Nueva Canarias considers a serious rethinking of municipal housing policy urgent and suggests that the City Council create a public company or modify the corporate purpose of Mogán Gestión to assume these responsibilities. "The system is invented: there are municipalities that have directly promoted public housing and guaranteed fair and affordable prices," Gabella noted. As an example, he recalled the experience of San Bartolomé de Tirajana between 2007 and 2011, when public housing developments were built in El Tablero, promoted by the City Council itself.
Nueva Canarias believes it is essential that the Mogán City Council make a profound shift in its housing policy and directly assume public housing development, as other Canary Islands municipalities have already done with proven success. Municipalities such as La Laguna, with Muvisa, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, through its municipal housing company, have been demonstrating for years that it is possible to build and renovate publicly funded housing, guaranteeing fair and affordable access for citizens. Even closer to home, in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, the municipal housing company Gesvisur is still active and was responsible for the direct construction of more than fifty public housing units in El Tablero between 2007 and 2011, an experience that can be perfectly replicated in neighborhoods such as El Horno and Veneguera.
