The Salobreña branch of the Partido Popular opposition party has brought attention to the illegally occupied, half-completed, housing in La Caleta.

Party Spokesperson, Gustavo Aybar, considers this situation as a dangerous one for residents in the area, who have been demanding a solution to the problem for “years.”

He says that people squatting under such conditions could cause a health hazard (infection) and a feeling of insecurity for the nearby residents in the Caleta.

For all of these reasons, he requests that the Town Council adopt urgent measures because “these people light small open fires (inside) to keep warm during the winter months.”

Editorial comment: the problem with these government-subsided housing goes back to when Sr. Aybar’s party occupied the Mayor’s office. A licence was granted during the height of the boom but the construction company went bust resulting in low-income families who had paid a deposit losing their savings.

Since then many of them that were near completion were raided and fittings and other material removed.

Something has to be done about these houses urgently, because squatters are living side-by-side with rats and other vermin, which endangers their healths and other they come in contact with.

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: Radio Salobreña)