Social equality, at the focus of Tarragona’s claims to the State

After the economic crisis caused by the pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine, the incoming Government has a lot of work to do in social matter. What are the main requests of the entities?

The right to housing

It will be one of the hot topics. In this sense, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgage (PAH) of Tarragona requests, through its president, Stela López, «stop the evictionsno more vulnerable families are left on the streets and are offer social rentals».

In this sense, the president of the platform states that “the basic supplies “They should be guaranteed: no more water, electricity or gas cuts.” «We must provide the park with more social housing and respect the article 47 of the Constitution, which says that ‘all Spaniards have the right to enjoy decent and adequate housing’,” he adds. The PAH, in addition, requests the rent regulation conventional and the quotas of the mortgages.

Greater investment in dependency

The support for the old people It must also be one of the pillars. In this sense, the president of the Catalan Association of Assistance Resources (ACRA)Cinta Pascual, states that “it is necessary to reach a investment which means, at least, the 2% of GDPas many countries do, to increase the salaries of professionals and improve rates.

«On the other hand, they have to be achieved más Next Generation to improve infrastructure, and reduce VAT to 4% in all dependency services,” he adds.

Feminism and social rights

In the area of equalitythe colective Fall of Moons advocates for “a public-community system where everyone has right to be cared for and the people who do it have good Labor conditionsand feminist urbanism with safer environments, stop the real estate speculation and the mass tourism to guarantee access to housing for all, a universal basic incomeregularize the situation of the migrated people and reduce the workday» with an economy that puts life at the center.