The serious housing problem has been highlighted by ten young people on the road to occupation. On 4 May, they entered an abandoned building in the Santa Izpiritu district of Baiona and two weeks later the event became public. The building uninhabited since 2015 has been occupied to meet the need for shelter.
The area is called Maurizia. In addition to housing, they have the objective of proposing a cultural and social offer: radio, concert hall, kitchen, library or others. In addition, they would search for emergency housing and would seek to develop collaboration with the Atherbea structure. They want to bring the project together with the citizens, with the groups, with the solidarity of Iparralde.
One of the occupants of Euskal Irratia has been quite optimistic: They are in contact with the City Hall and hope to reach an agreement. Faced with the problem of empty houses, the occupants announced by press conference that a transitional urbanism is taking place: "Occupation of space when it takes time to run a building project or abandoned house".
Leave, on the same day as the notification of the occupation, 16 May, Police visit. They could not be expelled because they did not break doors when accessing the building. There has also been a fugitive of justice with a representative of the public structure of the Earth, EPFL, owner of the edificio.Constata occupation, the legal expulsion procedure is announced.
The building has been empty since 2015.El April 24, Jean-Rene Etxegarai announced the launch of the Aturri ibai eskualdea project. The Casa Consistorial wants to gather the opinions of the neighborhood's neighbors and neighbors in the immediate vicinity of the Baiona stations. In this sense, the occupants are determined to publicize the social and cultural project developed for the area of Maurizia.