On Monday, December 1st, a family had to leave the home they had lived in since 2021. Their kids were 6 and 11. People were kicked out after the bank that owns the property made a complaint. The family was living in the house without permission, which made them very vulnerable.
A group of about a dozen activists from the Carolines Neighbourhood Union showed up at 9:30 a.m. as planned by the group the day before to try to stop the eviction. Even though the family talked to the court clerk and the National Police officers who were there to carry out the eviction, they were not able to stop it. At 10:45 a.m., they left the house with the help of other neighbours and family members after taking their things.
The flat is on Calle Guadalupe, in the Alicante neighbourhood of Ciudad de Asís. Sources close to the family’s lawyers say that they are a “very vulnerable family with two minors who have mental health issues.” “We requested a suspension of the proceedings, but the judge refused without any explanation,” they said.
Another thing the defence brought up is that they think it is “wrong” that the court papers for the eviction “only list the mother, without notifying the other occupants.” They also say that they have applied for public housing through the Municipal Housing Authority and the Valencian Housing and Land Entity (EVHA), which is part of the Generalitat (Valencian regional government), but are still “on the waiting list.”
The mother of the family in question, Tamara, says that they got the notice to move “a month ago.” The mother of her two kids, ages 11 and 6, will take them in. Her boyfriend, on the other hand, will move in with his parents, who live close to where they currently live. The mother says that none of these houses are big enough for the whole family. She is even thinking about sleeping in her mother’s dining room.
The family also says they have a certificate of risk because of their mental health problems and the fact that they are poor. The mother says, “My kids won’t understand this.” She then clarifies that they weren’t refusing to talk to the owner. Because the flat is owned by a bank, they should let us live there without paying 800 euros a month’, the mother says.
Because the family is squatting, the Carolines Neighbourhood Union says it is “difficult to establish negotiations with the parties” to keep them from being evicted. However, they stress that “it is a family without resources, without options in the current situation; they are willing to pay an affordable rent that does not exist on the market and the banks’ real estate stock, accumulated after takeovers that were done in part with public money, should serve as a solution to these problems.”
Author: Derek Appleton
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