2024-04-30 08:29:07
An event – discussion on the topic “The right to a roof: Between touristic “exploitation” and evictions” is organized by the Epirus Base Assembly of “Confrontation – Organization for a New Communist Left” tomorrow Friday, at 7 pm, at the former Papazoglio Textile School which houses the Department of Architecture of the University of Ioannina.
“We are going through a period in which the crisis in access to decent and affordable housing is deepening more and more. While the generalized punctuality and energy crisis are increasingly affecting the lower economic strata, rent prices and housing market prices are constantly increasing. The touristization of our neighborhoods, “urban gentrification“, evictions, housing auctions, intertwine with structural class, racial and sexist exclusions, and threaten the right to housing. For us, housing is a right, which should not depend on the moods of the big economic factors, which base their profitability on the commercialization of a human need,” the invitation states.
The member of the governing committee of TEE and the United Initiative against auctions, architect Tonia Katerini, and the member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Architects (SADAS – PEA), architect Konstantinos Tsoutsis, will speak.