Cold debt
The ash has brought the cancer to light, as raw as possible. We didn't believe -- but fire has taught us that beliefs were corrupt: there's misery in the great, shiny Bilbao. And he appears occasionally on earth, accuser of social debts.
Five members of the same house have died drowned in flames and black fumes in a degraded building that would not be liked by many... Where? In the Campa de Zorroza: A quarter of an hour from the cathedral where Athletic plays matches, a few kilometers from the prestigious university run by the Jesuits of Deusto, and four days from the giant regional hospital of Cruces.
The number of people who have died in the Zorroza fire and the family proximity between them has brought to the surface a problem and a contradiction that we have in society: together with prosperity and prosperity, in its heart and in its center, we have ghettos.
There are more and more cases of exclusion and self-exclusion among us. However, the consciences are calm. Until the catastrophe comes, of course. So all txalapartaris.
The conversion into ghetto makes the disease of exclusions incurable and chronic. In urbanism, centripetal rather than centrifugal policies are needed. Inclusive, non-exclusive policies, thoughts and actions are needed. It is not easy in cases of marginalization, and perhaps it is more difficult in cases of self-exclusion.
In any case, it cannot be tolerated that the most degraded areas, such as isolated houses or entire neighbourhoods, are whatever, as the risks are known. No one can be allowed to do business with the market in these deteriorated and humiliated areas. Public administrations have a voice and a hand in these matters. They need to wake up, to wake up effectively.
Sometimes, fleeing from the property inquisition, our neighbors have committed suicide by not being able to pay their house, under the threat that they will evict them by force, without having where to go. Sometimes, neighbors have found death in one night, in a marginal neighborhood, living in precarious conditions, unable to adapt or unwilling to adapt to this prosperous society. Sometimes, the neighbors have been evicted from the neighborhood because they wanted to show in the old buildings that another life model is possible. Casuistry has no clear limits.
However, it is terrible to realize how quiet our language is until the punches of immolations appear to us. We have not yet done our project that housing is a right, more than a property. Social cohesion that does not absorb it is weak. And the eyes are to see. To listen, ears. Cancellations, debts.
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