Yes, you can support the demands of families “harassed” by companies that evict buildings in San Isidro (Granadilla). The eco-socialist organization adheres to the manifesto of the Tenants’ Union on this “violation” of the constitutional right to housing of the residents of the Tabaiba building.
Yes, it is possible to highlight “the inability of public administrations to give these families a way out, who have not received a solution from the institutions for more than 10 years,” says José Luis Almenara as spokesman on housing for this formation. “In the same article 47 of the Constitution, where the right of citizens to decent housing is enshrined, the obligation of public powers to make this right effective is established,” he explains. “In Sí se puede we ask ourselves where the social services of the City Council and the Government of the Canary Islands have been during these years,” he adds. Almenara indicates that the case “is even more bloody if one takes into account that the Granadilla City Council does not give any type of rental aid, it limits itself to referring people doomed to lose their homes to be attended by a non-governmental organization.”
In the organization’s opinion, “it is intolerable to resort to bullying to defend speculators who opportunistically enrich themselves in crises at the expense of popular interests,” says its spokesperson.
Almenara thus refers to one of the “bloodiest” factors in this case: the intervention of the company Desokupawhich “intervened against the affected neighbors to guarantee the privileges of an alleged real estate speculator” who, in addition, as the manifesto says, acted in an “opportunistic and miserly” manner, by “having bought a home, allegedly illegally and in bad faith, since the buyer, who acted like a vulture fund, was informed of the presence of residents in the building and knew of the critical economic situation of these families”.
The manifesto signed by Sí puede underlines that the intervention of these companies specialized in evictions is a way of “normalizing” the harassment of the most vulnerable people in our society, “with formulas that give an apparent legal cover to hateful practices characteristic of radical groups”, whose role consists of “addressing the cases through faits accomplis outside of the judicial processes, in such a way that they are denying the families the right to defend themselves.”
