Activists for the right to housing have filled Madrid’s Gran Vía with cardboard boxes this Monday to request that the bill that is awaiting parliamentary processing be strengthened.
The action called by the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) denounces the “lack of affordable and social housing” and warns of the future of many people of “end up living among cardboard”.
On the occasion of World Habitat Day and International Tenant Day, which is celebrated on October 3, different groups have demonstrated in the heart of the capital to demand that the political forces strengthen the Housing Law and they demand “the urgent need for a state housing law, which regularizes access to affordable housing for all.”
Among its demands is the ban on forced evictions that has confronted the government partners after the Socialists presented two initiatives last week to speed up evictions. Evictions from houses occupied by “vulnerable families who have no other place to live,” the associations denounce.
The group also asks cap rental prices“to put a stop to these abusive and speculative increases”, they affirm, another of the workhorses for United We Can.
Finally they demand the incorporation to the public rental housing stock all the half-finished promotions that monopolize the Sareb.
CCOO and UGT They have called for the processing of the bill for the right to housing “not to be subject to further delays” and have demanded that its approval take place during the current session, which will end before 2023.
“This is a fundamental right contained in article 47 of the Spanish Constitution, which states that “all Spaniards have the right to enjoy decent and adequate housing,” affirm both unions.
