Bilbao Tenants Union: "The City Hall has preferred to give in to the interests of the Vulture Fund"
- The Bilbao Tenants' Union has re-launched the #BilbaoBlakstonen campaign to denounce the actions of the Blackstone real estate and the Bilbao City Hall. The union has denounced that the City Council, in the face of the eviction order decreed by the multinational Blackstone, has left it out of the negotiations to ensure housing.
Uriola.eus reported that the real estate company Blackstone has launched the eviction of a family with three daughters and that the objective of the negotiations is to guarantee a piso.El union managed to delay the dismissal planned on 10 December and thanks to the action and denunciation carried out, the path of dialogue with the company “in order to find a solution to the situation of the family” was opened. The City Council of Bilbao managed to take on a number of institutional commitments and invited the housing councilor, Jon Bilbao, and the president of Municipal Housing of Bilbao to participate in the negotiations.
Instead of giving way to the tripartite negotiation proposed by the union, the City Council of Bilbao has denounced that the Tenant Union has been left out of the negotiations and defended the rights of the family concerned. "We had the opportunity to open a direct negotiation with the vulture fund, with the aim of finding a sustainable solution for the family," the union members said.
Faced with the decision of the City Hall, the Tenant Union regains the dynamic of public denunciation and union action: #BilbaoBlackstenContra In the video he disseminated in the context of the campaign they denounced the attitude of the City Hall: “The City Hall has not fulfilled its word, has preferred to give in to the economic interests of the vulture fund”, “what is intended is an operation for the rights of the most vulnerable families in Bilbao to fall below the interests of the owner of the housing and to provide these vulture funds with public money”.
The union has announced that in the coming weeks it will work in the streets, in the networks and in the media to defend the rights of the family under the slogan "Blackston despide, Udala accomplice".
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