Evicted and forced to pay for the demolition of their house

• Demolished BBVA continues to collect the mortgage on a flat that no longer exists

Karima

lost most of her belongings about a year ago.

«In an eviction you can at least withdraw them.

They didn't let me.

Furniture, household appliances ... All our lives thrown away », it hurts.

He lived in a block in

where part of the facade suddenly collapsed: the second's bathroom and kitchen were visible from the street.

The 42 residents were evacuated immediately, unable to return or recover more than a few effects.

The City Council concluded that the building threatened to collapse and ordered it to be demolished.

Eleven months later, most of the displaced have not found where to move.

They stay in hostels and apartments that the City Council pays for.

The local government has informed a dozen families that they must leave their accommodations on Wednesday.

They called us to kick us out without explanation.

The maid told me that the City Council has paid a lot for us, ”reveals Karima, sheltered with her husband and 19-year-old daughter.

Those affected complain that it has not been made easier for them to move to a home after being homeless.

"They offered me a home for 50,000 euros which was nothing more than a room, and then a rent of 700 euros, but I had to go to

" says the woman, who is not only left without shelter, but the Consistory He demands a debt from him for having owned a flat on the farm.

The institution urges the owners to reimburse the 482,391.82 euros that the demolition cost the municipal coffers, and Karima asks for 41,003.30 euros of the amount.

The only income she declares is 1,100 euros per month from her husband's temporary work.

«They have thrown us the house and on top of that we have to pay it?

It's a joke and an abuse, ”

is irritated

, staying in a boarding house with his mother,

.

The neighbor carried a mortgage, canceled months after the eviction, and the City Council is now claiming 41,003.30 euros from her.

The woman receives a low benefit and the son has hunted a contract for work of just over 1,000 euros.

"We had the house recently renovated, all new ... My mother has not been offered apartments," laments another daughter of Sfia,

.

She mentions one more annoyance: since April they have not been able to access the belongings stored in a storage room.

“There were rats the last time we went.

They had eaten a lot and torn clothes.

«I could not change the winter clothes for the summer ones.

In the storage room they told me that the City Council does not pay them and that is why they do not let me pass, ”Karima completes.

Cross accusations

The relocated have appealed against paying for the demolition.

They argue that social services serve them for hovering around the poverty line.

The municipal Executive of the PP has issued the payment orders, although the process is blamed on his predecessors of the PSC, in command of Badalona when the property was demolished in a subsidiary manner;

in other words, the administration advanced the money to end up passing it on to the headlines.

"It is nonsense that we are looking to change," announces the mayor, Xavier García Albiol, who judges "little sensitivity that some people who have lost their home are required above the amount of the demolition."

The City Council file is based on the fact that the owners had the obligation to keep the property in good condition.

The previous mayor,

, blamed them for neglecting requirements to put an end to the deterioration and aluminosis of the building.

The injured parties blame four real estate companies (

) for

their properties in the block and not paying community fees, which made it impossible for the reforms to be financed.

In turn, they reproach that the Town Hall did not proceed to repair the damages and then collect them from the neighbors, nor was it diligent when reporting illegal works on the ground floor, which they believe aggravated the damage.

On the other hand, the PP Government maintains that it cannot assume "infinitely" the stay of the families.

He argues that "most have income" and offers help with a rental bond.

Fouad points out that the aid is conditional on finding an address that "does not exceed 600 euros" per month.

"There are no rents for that price," he opposes.

«They are told to find an apartment, but my aunt does not meet half the requirements for them to rent it.

And with the pandemic it has become even more complicated, ”emphasizes

, niece of a tenant who subsists on 600 euros.

"Albiol said he would help us but he fired us when he became mayor," criticizes

, who has waited since August to collect unemployment benefits.

He confesses that he does not plan to leave the apartment.

XAVIER GARCÍA ALBIOL, TAJANTE

"We do not offer privileges to anyone."

The mayor of Badalona, ​​Xavier García Albiol, has left no doubt this morning that eight families will be left this week without the accommodation that the City Council pays for since they lost the apartments they inhabited.

The

paints as little less than a few kept the relocated, who demonstrated to beg not to be expelled.

"They are paid pensions and apartments, plus maintenance in most cases, furniture storage and, in some cases, transportation. The City Council has spent 310,000 euros on these families. The help cannot be eternal," Albiol settled.

Those affected were left without a home and a good part of their belongings.

The mayor refers to the fact that some rejected offers to move;

On the other hand, the injured report difficulties in finding rents commensurate with their income.

Albiol supported himself to stop paying for the stay in which, among the beneficiaries, there are people who squatted homes in the dilapidated property.

Then he specified that they are two of the eight families who will no longer be sheltered and stressed that they have income.

He did not reveal more of his circumstances.

"Above that they squat, the City Council pays them with bread and knife," snapped the mayor, who wants to become a benchmark against the encroachment of homes.

Albiol believes that billing them for the cost of the demolition is an "injustice", but relies on the fact that the previous PSC and

agreed to charge them.

"He has no turning back. If he wanted to make a move, we would prevaricate," said the mayor, who hinted that the owners can obtain profitability by maintaining ownership of the land where their house was built.

"It is impossible. The site is affected and has little buildability", refutes the lawyer for the victims, Rafael Mendoza.

In turn, Albiol blamed his predecessors for neglecting the payment of some 10,000 euros to the storage room that stores belongings of the evicted.

The debt prevents them from accessing your clothes and effects.

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