Tono Hernández is without doubt one of the 4 residents denounced by the funding fund that owns the constructing at Calle C. del Consell de Cent, 122, in Barcelona, referred to as Casa Orsola. The 4 have refused to go away their residence after the top of the rental contract, as requested by the property and have paid their lease outdoors the contract. This Monday the primary trial was held in opposition to Josep, one of many defendants who has lived on the farm for 20 years.
The new property, Lioness Inversiones, knowledgeable them by burofax that they weren’t renewing their lease and so they needed to abandon their properties. The neighbors ask the property to take a seat down and negotiate. Josep’s case has been seen for sentencing and the date for a attainable eviction has been set, which shall be subsequent February 14.
The neighbors stay optimistic: “We have organized ourselves to make seen an issue that’s occurring in whole blocks,” Tono defined to NIUS. This 48-year-old journalist lives alone in a 60-square-meter house with a room within the Eixample, for which he paid 815 euros a month: “I’ve been residing for 10 years. It was no reward and it is unfair that deep-rooted neighbors are compelled to desert it “, Add.
From 800 to 2,400 euros for lease
His rental contract expired in July, like the remainder, he has continued to pay his lease and because the property has rejected him, he has been judicially commissioned. Tono nonetheless doesn’t know the date of his trial for breach of contract.
The funding fund purchased the constructing in November 2021 and has transformed the empty flats into seasonal leases. “They lease these similar flats which have remained empty for two,400 euros per 30 days and with a contract that may be terminated after 10 months,” they clarify to NIUS from the Llogateres Union that has mobilized to assist the affected residents.
Housing protection entities ask the property to comply with a collective bargaining. The council of Ada Colau has additionally carried out so. From the Llogateres Union they ask for judicial mediation: “This battle goes past the termination of a rental contract. Neighbors are expelled from a whole block to take a position with the houses,” they clarify.
Tenants, “unprotected”
These similar entities are additionally calling for a reform of the seasonal rental legal guidelines since, as they clarify, “the legislative framework doesn’t shield individuals who stay for lease in a metropolis like Barcelona,” they add.
Meanwhile, the opposite three denounced neighbors await the date of their respective trials: “We are hopeful as a result of different communities with the identical downside have requested us for assist and have reached a negotiation with the property,” says Tono. “If we depart with out saying something, this eviction shall be invisible, like so many others,” he concludes.