Despite the social awareness that has developed in recent months around the right to housingthe evictions continue to take their toll in the weakest groups. It is the case of Pink, a 70 year old woman from the town of Erandio, Bizkaiawhich was evicted this Tuesday after being the victim of a loan with unaffordable interest eight years ago.
The concentration organized by the Socialist Housing Union of Euskal Herria next to the association Stop Evictions has not been able to avoid this process, although he has shown strong neighborhood solidarity with Rosa, who shared a flat with her grandson and who is now in a situation of extreme vulnerability.
The reason for the debt that the pensioner has contracted dates back to a loan of 7,000 euros that she requested from the company eight years ago. Your best loanin which she was forced to put her house as collateral and whose Conditions have progressively become more and more abusive.
With a single entry of 700 euros as a widow’s pension and one 69% disabilityhas not been able to face the excessive interests that have led to the loss of her property. Although she began a complaint process six years ago for defrauding the entity, that It hasn’t stopped them from keeping your apartment.
For now, Rosa has received the only solution to stay in an official protection floor that has been provided to you since Social Services. This measure, which will only last for six months, is totally temporary and does not solve the real problem.
Neighborhood support that ends in arrest
The Ertzaintza Not only did he have a wide deployment of troops to deal with the hundred people who gathered outside the house, but he also has arrested two of the protesters. The protest had been called since Socialist Housing Union from Euskal Herria along with other groups and although they only wanted to stop the eviction, the Basque authority has accused the detainees of “attack on authority” and “resistance to agents“.
According to what the protesters have claimed, it is not an isolated case and represents the situation of many older people with financial problems who succumb to loans with fraudulent conditions.
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