It would be absolutely regressive to put profit first in measures designed to protect the social function of housing, the protection of the vulnerable person who inhabits it and human rights that are not a matter of compensating but of fulfilling and that are the responsibility of all, including the large holders .
The evictions continue while the Government studies rescuing the banks, vulture funds ...
x PAH: Evictions continue while the Pedro Sánchez Government studies how to rescue the banks, vulture funds and large property owners again
Evictions continue while the Pedro Sánchez Government studies how to rescue the banks, vulture funds and large property owners again
In the midst of the health crisis, it must be prevented by all means that people and families are thrown into the streets without adequate and safe housing alternative, due to responsibility and health
Evictions without adequate housing alternatives continue to occur at an alarming rate. In the first nine months of this year, there have been 18,138 evictions, including mortgages, rents and precarious.
It is a fallacy to affirm that, in the current pandemic situation, evictions are over. Far from it, as false as "no one is left behind." The Royal Decrees have left many sectors without protection, such as families and vulnerable people prior to COVID-19. Also to anyone who cannot prove that their situation of vulnerability comes directly from COVID, or even having affected them, do not have a rental contract under the LAU. The different groups that originally had protection that has now been taken away from them are left behind, such as those who are threatened by non-payment of the mortgage and the questioned Law 5/2019, regulating real estate credit contracts, is applied to them. There can be no exceptions when it comes to ensuring that all vulnerable people have a rehousing of decent housing.
We need the #DecretoStopDesahucios now. Every day that passes, 160 families are thrown into the streets, 800 families every week. It is time to listen and respond to all vulnerable families, who are being evicted and seeing their basic supplies cut off.
The economic crisis that COVID-19 has aggravated will not subside because the end of the state of alarm is declared. The impossibility of dealing with high housing prices will continue all these months, with the consequent wave of evictions if the moratorium lasts only based on the specific data of infections. Especially when a study by several US universities showed that evictions caused more than 400,000 infections and 10,000 additional deaths in the US.
Faced with this situation, the PAH started a commitment in Congress, signed by enough political parties, so that the #DecretoStopDesahucios would have an overwhelming absolute majority in the event that the Government enacted it, but it is repeatedly being delayed. The Government would find a sufficient majority to paralyze all evictions until at least the end of 2022 or the entry into force of a housing law that responds to the demands of the PAH.
From the PAH we understand that the banks, vulture funds, large property owners and the energy companies of this country, apart from being rescued with public money, continue to dictate to the supposed progressive government the laws that have to be approved and those that do not. We were perplexed by the news that the Government not only postponed the #DecretoStopDesahucios, but also put obstacles on it.
The latest information increases our indignation because, apparently, sectors of the government intend to condition the right to housing with the benefit of banks and vulture funds, since it is considering, once again, to pay with public money to large housing holders amounts equivalent to market rents derived from the stoppage of evictions, instead of making them jointly responsible, since housing is a basic social good.
We find it shameful that speculative capital has so much power and government spokesmen to: take advantage of the housing emergency situation, attempt a new rescue to the real estate sector. We are talking about serious situations of vulnerability and not of sustaining the profits in the income statement of large holders such as Blackstone, BBVA or Banco Santander, which continue to obtain millions in ordinary profit in this year of pandemic.
From the PAH we understand that not even 1 euro of public money can be delivered if the unpaid bank rescue and the permanent injection of money are not previously returned to the public that involves forgiving the vulture funds and SOCIMIS the payment of taxes, allowing them to be some are located in tax havens and advantageous tax conditions for others. Under no circumstances can public money be lost and, at the same time, permanently ruin public funds that must be destined to overcome poverty, fulfill constitutional and human rights, such as housing, helping citizens to face the effects current socio-economic. May they compensate for that rescue in housing, obtained from their scam and real estate bubble after more than 1 million evictions since 2008.
There has been no compensation whatsoever to families whose homes have been taken away with abusive clauses. Nor those who have been deprived of the right to housing during all these years of prices not adjusted to income; nor to many working class affected by COVID-19.
The PAH defends fair survival compensation to the small homeowner because we do not hold him responsible for the current situation of social emergency. That is to say: we understand that the paralysis of evictions should not harm them in meeting their most basic and urgent needs, and of course, avoid any repercussions that could become in a situation of vulnerability.
However, any approach to large holders must start from the fact that they offer the relationship of the individuals and families they have in their sights due to non-payment of mortgages, rents or occupation; and identifying emergency situations, offsetting the benefits of the bank and fiscal rescue. Only with an attitude of commitment and search for social solutions can there be progress.
In this sense, we encourage the Government to obtain from these large holders, in addition to the stoppage of evictions at least until 12-31-2021, more definitive alternatives against the housing emergency, such as agreeing new social rental contracts (7+ 3 years) with amounts that can really be assumed by families based on the situation of poverty and vulnerability; and, of course, as long as it does not involve making August again with public money, but rather the implementation of an authentic shared social responsibility. If not, those affected by eviction will have to continue to recover the house that the banks had closed out of extreme necessity. Isn't a social rent the just solution?
It would be absolutely regressive to put profit first in measures designed to protect the social function of housing, the protection of the vulnerable person who inhabits it and human rights that are not a matter of compensating but of fulfilling and that are the responsibility of all, including the large holders
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. It would be absurd for a situation to be designed that benefits the big speculators, and on top of that it is forced to face such onerous obligations that once again, it leads to launches because it is unsustainable to pay them; It would be to close the circle of shame, where capital manages not only to put citizens at its feet but also to bring down the entire State apparatus, which according to the Constitution is a Social and Democratic State of Law that is governed by the general good of the population, not that of the financial oligopoly.
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