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Social housing for all citizens now!
Bitor Abarzuza Fontellas 2024ko apirilaren 30a

Those of us who have been looking for a house for rent for a long time know that the housing market is a monster. Corruption and immorality have no limits. With a salary of about a thousand euros, today is an impossible job if you want to live alone, and it is also a stressful and discouraging job that can lead you directly to the home.

We are thousands of applicants and the Government of Navarra occasionally responds to the promotion of a few houses and thousands of people are left out. Article 47 of the Spanish Constitution is useless. It was elaborated by elites and political industry professionals to satisfy the financial interests of those who move and move the threads of the housing system: banks, large construction companies, real estate web platforms. In the new Housing Act these structures are also intact. Nobody faces them.

And the system goes on the collar: a deeply inflamed and aberrant market in which we have found irrationality, intimidation, abuse of precarious wages and all kinds of abuses in the rapid search for a reasonable price. For example, real estate agents who call you "pass the law on the testicles", conditions and abusive bonds, and owners who blackmail potential tenants, as well as people who take advantage of social aids to rent the housing given to tenants (Emantzipa and David), precisely because they cannot live at market prices and want to collect these aids in a covert or fraudulent way.

It is a shameful, vulture and perverse market. Many middle-class people, who own a second home, argue that banks have shot their mortgages and have to "rent up." Because a few unjustly play at a very high level (banks, real estate, advertising platforms, construction companies...), the rest also do so at a lower level, and finally, all affect the precariousness of those who are looking for rented housing.

False speeches or fictional "social hidden" are not enough; a sound policy is needed to give effect to the fundamental right to housing

We cannot develop freely as people and live independently, and we must also share weight at excessive and forced prices. It is suspicious that the CEOE employers have taken the initiative of raising wages, salaries with which, of course, you cannot live right now in an extremely inflamed market in all kinds of products. It is shameful that in the twenty-first century people cannot live on our own with wages and without real housing rights.

I believe that a new social mobilization is needed in favour of the right to real housing. It has to be seen and claimed that hundreds of thousands of applicants have been left out of the award of those few floors promoted by Nasuvinsa. In my opinion, trade unions and workers’ organisations tend to join the ideology of the “middle class”, which is not being a solidary mentality, but a follower of bankers, real estate companies and the market of construction companies. And that can only be burdensome, which can slow down the drive of the Socialist Housing Union and the other social groups, which are directly at the heart of real estate capitalism.

We must encourage and encourage governments to exercise with dignity our right to live in a house, to build sufficient social housing to meet existing real demand, to nationalize empty floors if necessary, or to place those who really move the market’s yarns in their place. False speeches or fictional "social hidden" are not enough; a sound policy is needed to give effect to the fundamental right to housing. That you take into account the fundamental right to live and breathe once and for all, and that housing is not the largest social prison today that unites us in the short term, where no one really enjoys the right to life, because a few incarcerators control our lives socially and profitably.

Bitor Abarzuza Fontellas