The door to the door movement mobilized this Saturday in Faro about four dozen people who spoke for the right to housing, demanding a house for all, in a region with many problems in the sector.
“We cannot allow the problem to get worse more, if it is urgent to lower the incomes regulating and setting their price, it is equally urgent that the contracts in force and the new contracts have a minimum duration of 10 years,” said the spokesman at Algarve, Ana Tarrafal, in an intervention in front of the Faro Municipal Market.
The demonstration in the Algarve capital was the first of many that, throughout the day, will be held in several cities of the country.
For Ana Tarrafal, “the problem cannot be allowed to get worse and so it is necessary to end all forms of eviction without a dignified housing alternative and mobilize all public, public and private.”
During the meeting, several slogans were shouted, such as: “April, it requires a home to live”, “Peace Health Housing, fulfill the Constitution”, “we demand to decrease the interest rate and put the banks to pay”, among others.
“We will not stop, what we live can no longer tolerate. Let’s go to a new phase of struggle, combat, confrontation for the right of all those who, living and working in our country, need home to live,” Ana Tarrafal complained under the Algarve sun and with a temperature that already exceeded 30º C in the morning.
The door to the door also presented a claiming notebook of emergency for the problem of the lack of housing, with twelve points.
Among these points are the requests to “lower income: regulating and setting the price”, “10 years of minimum in lease agreements (new and in force)”, mobilize all empty houses for lease (excluding the houses of emigrants and second housing).
Protesters also want to “ban new licenses for all types of tourist accommodation in pressure and housing lack, with immediate review of their licenses and mobilization for long -term lease at regulated price” and the “immediate end of tax benefits that facilitate real estate speculation”.
At the end of the demonstration was voted and unanimously approved of those present with the title “occupying the streets so that they do not see our ceiling! By applying the emergency claim to housing”.
“The government and the majority of the right -wing one who left the legislative elections harass all those who, living and working in our country, need home to live!” Begins by affirming the text of the motion.
The document ends with the realization that “it is worse to have a home to live”, demanding the present “solutions for now” for the right to housing in Portugal.
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