The tension rises in Barcelona a few hours from the date indicated for the eviction of one of the tenants of the Orsola house, already converted into emblem of movements by the right to housing. The City Council has requested in extremis that the eviction is paralyzed and that the parties feel to negotiate, but the tenant union and the company that owns the farm accuse each other of dynamiting any glimpse of dialogue.
Supported by an initiative of the Greuges Union (the defender of the Catalan people), the Consistory has offered to mediate among the parties. “A good solution, from entry, would be to suspend the launch and meet at a table, that would be the way,” said the City Council Commissioner Joan Ramon Riera.
But his words do not seem to have an effect, judging by the response of the tenant union. In a brief statement, they have thrown him in face that he activates in the absence of a few hours for eviction. “The City Council has contact with the property and with the tenant union and they perfectly know that it is the property that refuses to the negotiation,” they add, and say that until last month they asked to meet – without success – with the owners.
Acquired by the company LionS investments in 2021, the Eixample modernist farm then had 27 inhabited floors. Of them, a few had indefinite contracts and the rest, I was going to beat them in a few years. At present, and after several concentrations, failed negotiation attempts and a failed mediation of the City Council, five of the residents of the Orsola house are out of contract, two of which with demand for an eviction. But they resist leaving the farm. One of them is Josep, as a teaching profession, and who has a release date this Friday.
Throughout the day on Thursday, the property of the farm has also pronounced publicly, something very unusual. Lionss investments, has issued a statement in which it denounces the “growing legal insecurity that housing owners face.” A situation, they affirm that “it is” aggravated by the slowness of judicial processes, which facilitate non -vulnerable tenants to refuse to leave the house. ”
Lions Investments defines the tenant union as a platform that “promotes occupation and defamation practices.” In addition, he denounces that the union has “forced” collective bargaining “under conditions outside the reality of the market” to “delay the restitution of legitimate property.”
“This platform has induced some tenants to believe that they can keep their contracts sine die Without rental adjustments, taking advantage of the slowness of justice, ”adds the property. In addition, he argues that these types of “instability” campaigns and, as he points out, are responsible for reducing the available supply.
However, the investments claims more resources for the judicial system to accelerate eviction procedures and the right to private property is respected, “a basic pillar in the rule of law,” they point out.
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