Residents claim they have been forced out of their homes to live in makeshift accommodation on the Canary island as Spain struggles through a housing crisis.
El Dia, a regional newspaper in the Canary Islands, reported that cupboards were rented out in Tenerife for around €430 (£362) per month, while tents go for €12 (£10) per night.
Locals have been forced to live in tents, caravans and their cars (Photo: GeoTenerife)
House prices have risen 18 per cent in the Canary Islands in May compared with the same month last year, according to the Spanish Registrars of Property.
The bricklayer was evicted from his home in an apartment block in Arona in the south of Tenerife along with scores of other people in March 2024 and spent five months living in his van with his dog.
Spaniards forced to live in caravans in Playa de las Ballenas, Las Galletas, Tenerife (Photo: Eloy Uteiral)
“All the homes are for the tourists and there is nothing that I can afford. A studio for a single person will be over €1,000 [£843] per month or maybe more,” he told The i Paper.
Mr Uteiral blamed the Spanish government for failing to do more for local people to ease the housing crisis and said they should build more social housing or impose limits on tourist accommodation in holiday resorts.
Works at controversial mega resort Cuna del Alma are proceeding despite calls for the area to be protected (Photo: GeoTenerife)
Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish Prime Minister, has announced an ambitious plan to spend €1.3 billion (£1.1bn) of EU funds over the next ten years on industrial projects to build social housing, constructing 15,000 new homes every year.
A demonstration is planned next weekend at Tenerife’s Teide National Park, which is popular with holidaymakers, to protest over the way it has been turned into a “tourist fun park”.
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One such is the Cuna del Alma complex, which was halted amid concerns it was being built in a protected natural area, but the present island government has lifted orders to halt the work and allowed the work to go ahead.
Last year some 2.8 million Britons were among the seven million tourists who visited Tenerife, making it the most popular of all the islands in the archipelago.
Some 27,000 residents have put their names on the waiting list for social housing in the Canary Islands.
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