Entities for the right to housing have reacted with indignation to the fall of the social shield that included the moratorium against evictions, in force since the pandemic. Collectives such as the PAH, Alliance against Energy Poverty (APE) or the DESCA Observatory have especially criticized Junts for not voting in favor of the package of decrees in Congress that included this measure in addition to many others, such as the revaluation of pensions or the reduction in public transport.
The PAH has warned that if this protection is not recovered for vulnerable families, there will be a wave of evictions. “The figures will return to those of the 2010s, with an average of over 250 evictions per day,” they say in a statement, in which they recall that the moratorium has managed to prevent 58,000 evictions in four years.
The criticism of these groups has been directed at all the parties that overturned the decree, starting with PP and Vox but especially against Junts. “It is difficult to understand why Junts, which claims to defend the interests of Catalonia, has voted against a measure that has prevented almost 10,000 Catalan families from being left on the streets,” the DESC Observatory said in its statement this Thursday.
What these entities also demand is that the Government does not consider the moratorium lost and that it approve it in the Council of Ministers separately, waiting to pressure PP and Junts so that this time they do validate it. “The only way to avoid a real wave of unemployment is to immediately approve the measure again through the Council of Ministers, urgently and this week, recovering it to protect people and families at risk of losing their housing,” they say from the DESCA Observatory.
The APE demands the same: “In the short term, the Government must prevent the lack of protection from being prolonged through the approval of a new decree law and the different parliamentary forces, especially PP and Junts, must not put obstacles to its validation if “Only measures of a social nature are included.” The latter, however, is not at all clear, since, for example, Junts has already made it clear that it opposes the current moratorium.
To increase pressure, the entities have announced mobilizations. For now, the PAH has called one this Thursday at the Junts headquarters in Barcelona, at 5:30 p.m.
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