Hundreds of people, about 3,000 according to the organizers, demonstrated this Saturday in Granada to demand the right to decent housing and demand that properties stop being used as businesses with which to speculate.
Under the motto ‘No to the housing business’, attendees chanted phrases such as “housing is not a luxury”, “we want to live not survive”, “it is urgent to lower the rent” or “vulture funds out of our neighborhoods.”
Before the start of the march, David Rodríguez, a member of the La Calle Mata platform, explained to the media that the main reason for this protest is “the business” that, according to criticism, exists around the home since, despite being “a common good”, a “mafia business” is being carried out.
“We also criticize the massive touristification, which is expelling residents from the neighborhoods, and that people have to allocate more than 60% or 70% of their salary to enrich the vulture funds, the banks or the landlords and this is going to explode. We don’t have access to housing and we can’t take it anymore,” he lamented.
Likewise, he has reproached the fact that vulture funds dominate Granada “about 12,000 homes” and in Spain as a whole, approximately one million properties.
Salvador Soler, from the Stop Evictions platform, added that housing It must be “a right” and “not a business”, Therefore, he has asked that political institutions act to regulate this situation. “We want there to be a change in the Government’s policy so that they provide decent housing, especially for young people and the most needy people,” commented Soler.
“Vulture funds ruin people’s lives”
In the demonstration, which left at noon from the Jardines del Triunfo and traveled through the center of the Granada capital to the doors of the City Hall, the protesters carried signs in which they demanded that the Sareb homes are “for the people”, They have asked for the evictions to stop and have criticized the so-called vulture funds.
“Vulture funds ruin people’s lives”, “Neither people without homes nor homes without people”, “A neighborhood without neighbors is dead”, “Do not speculate with our homes” or “The Albaicín has a limit” are some of the banners that have been shown throughout the demonstration, called by the groups Albayzin Habitable, La Calle Mata, Granada Housing Union, Stop Evictions 15M Centro, Stop Evictions Granada 15M Zaidin and Realejo Habitable.
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