Brenda Rivero, president of the Canary Islands Youth Council, points out the need to highlight the important problem that young people suffer in finding housing. 16.8% of young people in the Canary Islands had managed to emancipate themselves at the end of the first half of 2022, almost one point more than the state average (15.9%). This also represents 2.4 percentage points more than in the previous year and semester, although the islands are still far from the levels above 20% that had been registered until 2018, according to Brenda Rivero, president of the Council of Youth of the Canary Islands. The improvement in the residential emancipation data is mainly due to the creation of employment, since 37.8% of the young people of the Archipelago were working in that period, a figure similar to that which existed before the crisis caused by the health pandemic caused by covid-19. That is, the young employed population has increased by 9.72% more than in the same semester of the previous year. “Far from being acceptable” Rivero points out that although the emancipation data in the Canary Islands has improved, it does not reach the 2019 figures, not even the average rate of youth emancipation in the European Union.
Something that they have indicated "is far from to be acceptable.” Young people between 25 and 29 years old, with 7.61% more, and young men, with 3.03% more, were the ones with the highest percentage of emancipation in the first half of 2022 compared to the above, despite the fact that young women continue to lead emancipation compared to men with 20.2% compared to 13.5%. The majority of emancipated young people coincided, at the same time, with a decrease in single-person young households (26.85% in a single year), which WhatsApp Number List certifies the fact that to leave the home of origin it is necessary to have more from a source of income. In this regard, only 10.9% of young people in the Archipelago lived alone (a figure that reaches 20.1% in Spain). 38.2% of salary allocated to housing As in the rest of Spain, more than half of the young emancipated people in the Canary Islands lived in rent (54.8%). However, between 2020 and 2021 (last date available) renting was losing ground in favor of homeownership as a form of ownership among the young Canarian population. This is mainly due to the fact that many young emancipated people were residing in owned homes for which they did not have to pay any mortgage loan, often thanks to inheritances or donations (18.4% of the population between 16 and 29 years old). , compared to 16.8% of young people in this age group who have a mortgag.
In relation to rent, it must be taken into account that young Canarians allocate around 38.2% of all their income to it, something that "is not very bearable", since according to the Bank of Spain and other international institutions they do not More than 30% of the budget should be allocated to paying the mortgage or rent. In the first half of 2022, 43.6% of young people in the Archipelago were at risk of poverty and social exclusion in 2021 (according to data from the Arope indicator), a figure much higher than that of the State as a whole (33 ,5%). Of them, 52.2% were men and 35.1% women. Furthermore, the extent of poverty among the young Canarian population was much higher than the state average due to the special vulnerability of the unemployed young population, 71.1% were poor. Currently, “we find ourselves in an improved panorama in terms of youth policies but without being a priority for the different governments,” and “we cannot forget that we are talking about a sector of the population that has seen its life models relegated, suffering a crisis after another.”