Malaga residents took to the streets again. Five months after this 29D, Málaga took to the streets of the city center under the slogan If they kick us out of the neighborhoods, we’ll shut down the city. Thousands of Malaga residents have united to demand that public administrations measures to ensure that everyone can access decent housing.
“If I pay the rent, I won’t eat. » This is how some Protestants summed up on their banners their feeling of not being able to become independent due to the high rental prices that currently exist in the city.
Since 11:00, dozens of people were already waiting in the Plaza de la Merced to begin the demonstration which would head towards Granada Street to cover the entire center. Banners of all colors and people of all ages. From the biggest to the smallest in their stroller. No one wanted to miss this focus.
Under the motto If they kick us out of the neighborhoods, we shut down the city more than 10,000 people from Malagaprotested on this 9-N, according to the Government Sub-delegation in Malaga. Among them was Enrique, a Málaga who did not hesitate to disguise himself as a padlock. “What better disguise than a padlock on a tourist residence? What if Malaga is flooded with them? “, he assures EL ESPAÑOL de Malaga.
“Housing is a right, not a privilege”“If I pay the rent, I won’t have anything to eat”, “Where is Paquito? Paquito sells what’s left of the city”, “Bad contracts are also bad deals”, are some of the phrases that were repeated during the three hours that the concentration lasted.
Every Malaga native has their story, but they all agree on the same thing: They want to have the possibility of becoming independent, by creating a life project and don’t leave your salary to pay the rent.
Among the demonstrators was Laura, accompanied by her friends. The young woman assured that they were between 25 and 35 years old.We have a decent salary, nothing precarious, and yet we do not have the possibility of becoming independentwhether they can rent an apartment or buy it. With this demonstration, this group hopes that the situation will change because the measures taken so far “are not enough”.
Ana Cortés agrees with her on this point and assures that “they continue to cover the finger problem”. “We only hope that leaders will study each case and start helping people at risk of social exclusion,” he noted.
For his part, Rafa, a young man of 24, declared that “the prices are horrible”. “I work, I have a partner and I don’t plan to become independent,” he remarks. Furthermore, he points out that “we always say that we are a company with a lot of expenses, but at the end of the day If I can’t have a life plan, then I will have to enjoy life. This is what I work for.”
In this sense, Rocío (28 years old) maintains that the idea of buying or renting an apartment does not come to mind because it is “impossible”. “They keep saying that if I pay the rent I will go without food and that is absolutely true.. I’m still at my parents’ house, working and I don’t even think about it,” he said.
The spokespersons of Málaga Para Vivir indicated that after this demonstration they would continue to organize to “continue the fight so that evictions stop and exorbitant rents are eliminated.
Likewise, during the end-of-concentration manifesto, they emphasized that they had returned to the streets because “this city is uninhabitable” Furthermore, they pointed out that “there is another city in the neighborhoods that refuses to leave”, so “only the neighbors will save the city”.
Likewise, they assured that from now on “a new cycle of self-organization begins” to save the city because “only the neighborhood makes a city, not the market, not the rentiers, not the public administrations”.
