Hundreds of people have joined the mobilization called by the Housing Group of the Casco Viejo de Bilbao on Saturday to show solidarity with Judith and denounce his eviction. -In the Judith neighborhood. Municipal Housing Eviction" (Judith District. The march departed at 19:00 hours from Plaza Corazón de María. On his journey to the City Hall of Bilbao, the mobilization toured the streets of the San Francisco neighborhood and the Casco Viejo, under the motto "Judith will stay in the neighborhood". "Stop! he screamed. The protest was brought to the doors of the City Hall, as AZET denounced, "because in this case the shark is not a typical big owner, but public institutions: City Hall of Bilbao and Municipal Housing of Bilbao".

Judith is a 24-year-old woman who is about to give birth. In the lockdown, he ran out of work, and because he couldn't cope with the rent in the absence of income, he stayed in the street. In this situation, he began to live in a dwelling owned by Bilbao Municipal Housing. Recently, however, the Municipal Housing has sent him a letter in which he informs that he will be evicted. As stated in the article, a process of express eviction has been initiated due to the fire of a dwelling. This process allows eviction to take place within ten days. AZET and the Bilbao Okupación Office have requested that the deadlines for eviction be not calculated until Judith has been awarded free justice. At the moment there is no time limit for eviction, but the eviction order of the housing in force is still in force.

"The institutions that should aim to guarantee the right to housing for all workers act in a similar way to petty speculators," AZET said. Strengthening this assertion, they raise the following questions: "How, if not, will it be explained that public housing is empty in this situation? How will they argue about installing anti-okupas doors in empty municipal dwellings? How will some people and families explain that, despite fulfilling all the requirements to access a Municipal Housing, they are on the street? How can we argue that a woman in Judith's position wants to say goodbye in the midst of a pandemic? ".

A case crossed by gender and class

AZET has stressed that Judithena is far from being an isolated case, as in recent months there have been "a lot of similar cases that have come to the union". In the reading of the facts, they wanted to point out that "the housing problem is a structural problem that we face day by day the evicted, a problem that covers all areas of our life". They have pointed out that this problem is permeated by the rest of society's oppression, so the housing problem tends to coincide with class, gender and race oppression.

In this regard, they have read as follows: "In the case of working women, moreover, renting a home often leads us to the need to live all kinds of patriarchal violence in society (symbolic, psychological and physical violence), both by the owners, by the sub-founders, or by public institutions such as Judith. Therefore, Judith is not an isolated case, not a home case. It is no coincidence that Judith, besides being a worker, is a young woman, a single mother".

Manifestation in images

Multitudinous neighborhood response in #Bilbao march to protest the #eviction of #JudithSeQueda 🏠 a 24-year-old woman about to give birth 🍼 to which the City Hall and Housing Leave in the street 🗣 Complaint @AzTaldea pic.twitter.com/boPw1C2PDW

— Ecuador Etxea (@EcuadorEtxea) January 15, 2021

Yesterday the neighborhood gave Judith a strong collective hug and yelled loud that she and her daughter stay with us. 1/2@AzTaldea#JudithSeQueda #judithauzoan pic.twitter.com/KRQIhbL1yu

— @ErreHarria #ANkerkidetza STOP (@Erreharria1) January 16, 2021