When are the families in Carrizal de Ingenio due to leave?

According to Derecho al Techo, the eviction proceedings are set for 11 November 2026 at 09:30. Nobody knows as of 5 November whether they will go ahead.

Does the eviction affect tourists in the south of Gran Canaria?

No, visitors will notice nothing. The case concerns eight families in one building in Carrizal de Ingenio, in the south-east of the island.

Who is behind the proceedings, according to Derecho al Techo?

The organisation names the company XiZdecor and calls it a large property owner. That is its claim, and the company has not replied.

What does Derecho al Techo demand before an eviction?

The organisation wants social reports obtained and weighed in the proceedings. It also wants every affected household guaranteed a decent replacement home.

What about the eviction on Calle Nicolás Estévanez in Las Palmas?

That is a different case with different families. A court suspended eight evictions there around 7 October, after Sareb applied to the court for it.

Carrizal de Ingenio: 8 families face eviction 11 November

What changes for visitors and residents?

Holidaymakers in the south of Gran Canaria will notice nothing on 11 November. Carrizal de Ingenio lies in the island's south-east, and the reports available mention no closures and no effect on traffic or accommodation.

The ones who feel it are eight families. According to Derecho al Techo, they have lived for years in a building in the village and, the organisation says, have nowhere else to go.

Tenants and residents on Gran Canaria can take one lesson from the case. Two things decide whether an eviction is stopped: the court must obtain social reports, and the authorities must find a replacement home.

No official source could confirm which rights and deadlines apply in this case. So there is no step-by-step advice to give.

What is planned for 11 November in Carrizal de Ingenio?

The eviction proceedings are set for 11 November at 09:30, Derecho al Techo says. The building is in Carrizal de Ingenio, a district of the municipality of Ingenio in south-east Gran Canaria.

Minors and people with disabilities could be among those affected. The organisation did not say how many.

All the children go to school, and the families have ties to their neighbours and the wider community in the district. Derecho al Techo warns that an eviction could tear them out of the surroundings they know.

According to the organisation, the families have lived in precarious conditions in the building for years. About a year ago, the complaint says, private firms that clear squatters out of homes (desokupación) even came by.

Who is behind the proceedings, and what is being demanded?

Derecho al Techo names the company XiZdecor as the driving force behind the court cases. It calls the firm a “gran tenedora”, meaning a large owner of properties.

That is the organisation's account, and the company has made no statement. The organisation also criticises that no social reports were requested at the start.

It wants them added to the court file before anyone decides on the eviction. No eviction should go ahead, it demands, without checked reports on vulnerability.

It adds that a decent replacement home must be secured for everyone affected. Housing emergencies are a job for the public administrations, in its view, not for the families or the associations supporting them.

How did similar cases on Gran Canaria turn out?

Derecho al Techo counts 33 evictions scheduled on Gran Canaria for October. On 4 October it ended a six-day camp on the Plaza de La Feria in Las Palmas.

It said it would now try to build pressure from the public. Around 7 October, in a separate case in Las Palmas, a court suspended eight evictions at Calle Nicolás Estévanez 8.

The suspension came at the request of Sareb, a company with public capital. Ingenio saw a longer fight: from September to November 2025, the court in Telde repeatedly shifted the eviction of a family with six children.

The court resumed the case, suspended it and ordered it again. By February 2026 that family had a new home in Ingenio, with help from Derecho al Techo, the Fundación Hiperdino and the town council.

Outcomes in Ingenio have varied, and that family's case says nothing about Carrizal. The Canary Islands recorded 167 evictions in the second quarter of 2026, against 406 a year earlier, according to the national judicial council CGPJ.

The CGPJ also warns that not every counted eviction is a forced removal from a home. The count includes voluntary handovers and all types of property.

What is still open, and what comes next?

Nobody knows as of 5 November whether the eviction will go ahead on 11 November at 09:30. A postponement or suspension remains possible.

The court, case number, type of procedure and XiZdecor's legal basis have not been published. Nor is it clear whether the company owns the building or rents it out.

No statement has come from the Ingenio town council, the Canary Islands government or the courts. The number of minors, of people with disabilities and of all residents in the building is also open.

Derecho al Techo points to the new Real Decreto-ley 26/2026, known as the “Decreto Maricarmen”. The sources contradict each other on when it takes effect, and nobody said whether it applies to Carrizal.