- The Housing Union has denounced the situation of the neighborhood's neighbors. They have also warned that eviction is expected to take place without offering any housing alternatives to those affected, and that they will defend their neighbours as long as they do not get an alternative.
The Housing Union of Alokabide in the neighborhoods of Deusto and San Ignacio de Bilbao set the alarm on Tuesday night, announcing that in two days he was going to evict a neighbor from the Arangoiti neighborhood and his five-year-old daughter. The union has specified that the woman at risk of eviction has a eviction order dated 8 July, at 10:30 in the morning, and that only two weeks ago the communication “pressured her to leave her home”. In this sense, they stressed that the neighbor had "little room for manoeuvre" to perform the maneuver.
With the date of eviction, the affected person has approached the Housing Union of the neighborhood and have chosen to report the case with a clear objective: to negotiate a housing alternative for the woman and her daughter. To date, they have not been offered. Waiting for a change of attitude on the part of those responsible for the situation, on Wednesday morning, they announced that “due to the complicity and ineffectiveness of the institutions, there are only 24 hours left for the neighborhood to see its life and its future suddenly truncated”, they announced their intention to go to the headquarters of the Department of Social Action in Bilbao. The aim of this meeting is to negotiate a solution to the situation and with what has been said there, the situation will be made known. In addition, they have appealed to the public to be attentive to new and possible calls.
The woman began to have problems paying for the rent during the confinement, but her situation of economic vulnerability has not been a reason to curb eviction, they have stressed. In addition, the union has added that women have also suffered machista violence. As they have pointed out, for the Basic Social Services Unit of District 1 of Bilbao and for Etxebide “neither of these reasons seems sufficient to stop the eviction”. “Once again, reality shows us how closely related to the housing problem with the gender issue. Being more precarious, and suffering machista violence as in the case of this neighbor, makes us more vulnerable to housing problems”, they have read.
