He Tenants Union stood up to the president of the government, Pedro Sanchezduring the meeting with the sector representatives to solve the housing problem. The tenants’ union did not want to attend because I didn’t want to sit with the bosses. They accuse them of being the guilty of the problem.
“We will not take any photos with real estate employers because we can’t wait for a solution “Rentier owners are not invited to discuss housing policy,” they stressed in a statement a few hours before Sánchez’s meeting with social organizations and representatives of the housing sector.
New mobilizations in sight
Furthermore, they once again threatened a rent strike and new mobilizationsmentioning cities like Seville, Malaga or Granada. Their motto is clear: “Either prices fall, or we will stop paying them”.
At the doors of the Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabelle Rodriguezappear on Wednesday at the Congress of Deputies to talk about housing, the Tenants’ Union announced that it would “take to the streets” again in Malaga and Seville (November 9) And Barcelona (November 23).
After the demonstration on October 13 in Madrid demand a reduction in rent and the call a strike to avoid paying rentthe union insisted on requesting the resignation of Isabel Rodríguez, whom it accuses of never wanting to meet with them but of repeatedly meeting with construction companies and real estate portals.
In the opinion of the unions, the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez“must decide: either it confronts the rentiers who have multiplied rents with complete impunity, or it continues to give them carte blanche with cosmetic policies,” they said.
Measures like prime young“which will end up in the pockets of rentiers”, or the decree on seasonal rentals, “a simple information sheet without real effects, demonstrates their intention not to change anything”, they estimated.
They speak of a “borderline” situation
In the opinion of tenant unions, the the current situation “is the limit”as shown by the latest demonstrations attended by thousands of tenants in several Spanish cities.
This is why they demanded a 50% reduction in rents; recovery of empty, tourist houses and seasonal for residential use; the expropriation of homes from “vulture funds”, the “dismantling” of all “expulsion” groups or even the cessation of all speculative activity.
The Tenants’ Union understands that employers in the banking and construction sectors have been driving housing policy in Spain for 40 years and Sánchez must decide whether to take on rentiers, whom he accuses of increasing rent prices “with complete impunity”, or give them carte blanche. “cosmetic” policies.
