VALÈNCIA (EFE). Dozens of families have attended the rally that the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) of the Valencian Country has summoned this morning in front of the headquarters of Banco Sabadell in the city of Valencia, to demand that the financial institution, and the “vulture funds” to which it has sold homes of its property affected by social rents, maintain these contracts and not evict to the families who occupy these floors.
Representatives of the PAH have tried to deliver a letter to the branch executives explaining their proposals, a letter addressed to the presidents of the bank and also to the home buying funds. They have not been allowed to enter the bank headquarters, so they have handed over the letter to a sworn vigilante.
“It is not just a problem of the Sabadell Bank, also from Bankia, Caixabank, BBVA O Santander Bank“, PAH spokesmen have explained to EFE. The problem arises in the evictions that occurred in 2007 and 2008 when, after the burst of the bubble, in many cases the donation of homes was accepted in payment of the mortgage debt and rents were then signed at social prices These contracts are not being extended now, years later, by the “vulture funds” to which entities such as Sabadell sell those homes.
Thus, for example, Aída, the mother of an eleven-year-old boy who lives with her, explained to EFE: “I bought my apartment ten years ago and I could not pay the mortgage. I had to give up the house in payment about four years ago. years, they made me a social rent, then they did not want to renew it and after being featured in the media they extended it for another year. Now, after the extension of the covid-19 six months ago, they no longer respond to me , I have no news of them. ” And what is feared is eviction.
In Valencia there are about 30 families affected, and in a large part of them there are minors and elderly people, as explained by those responsible for the PAH, who demand that the banks that have accepted housing in payment in payment “be held responsible. sell without taking into account the people who are there. “
For the PAH of the PV, the three-month extension of the extension of the blockade on evictions announced by the Prime Minister today is good news, “but also a patch. We need a housing law that forces large holders to do social housing, that they assume a part of the pain they have created, because they are the ones affected, not the private owners. We always talk about large owners, we have never addressed private owners. The new Law has to create a framework that goes beyond of the patches month by month “, they have indicated.
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