The massive demonstration who this Saturday afternoon toured the center of Valencia to defend the right to housing and against touristification has led to an unauthorized camping in the Town Hall Square of the city.
A group of people have spent the night in fifteen tents installed in front of the town hall governed by PP and Vox after the protest that brought together 50,000 protesters, according to the organizers. The Government Delegation lowers that figure to 15,000.
A movement under the motto «If we don’t have a house, we will occupy the square» which recalls the germ of similar demands, such as the 15M of 2011 – which occupied the same enclave of the capital of Turia – or the camps for Palestine that took place last May in the universities.
Image of the camping out for the right to housing, this Sunday, in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento of Valencia
In a statement spread online by the platform València no es en vende, the campers advance that They will be there throughout this Sunday and they encourage other people who agree with their cause to join, while they have called an assembly at six in the afternoon to decide the following actions.
In addition, they attach a list of needs. Among them, mats, sleeping bags, portable batteries, food or hygiene products. At the moment it is unknown how long this uncommunicated encampment will last or if it will be evicted in the next few hours.
*The people who are squatting in the square transmit this communication!*
Encourage people to join in and join in participating in this little rain during the day of hui. pic.twitter.com/nqitd4MbpQ
— Valencia is not for sale (@valencianoesven) October 20, 2024
Sources from the Government Delegation in the Valencian Community tell ABC that the National Police “will be prepared if a requirement occurs” of the Local Police of Valencia, the body that “has to enforce the ordinance of occupation of public roads.” Meanwhile, the agents maintain a preventive device to guarantee “public order.”
In statements to the media while their colleagues made banners with slogans such as “The only house I can afford is this one”, Irene and Marta, two of the people camping, have demanded the regulation of rents and have recalled that the problems of access to housing are not limited only to young people, which is why they have demanded that Valencia is declared a stressed area.
In that sense, they have criticized the lack of political will and have described the aid announced by the Government as “patches”, because “they do not reach where they really need to go.”
Marta lamented that “not everyone” can apply for rental aid because “Not everyone has rental contracts”. He has also focused on the fact that these measures only cause “an even greater increase in prices, because landlords think that you have more money and end up raising the price of your rent.”
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