The Platform Affected by Mortgage (PAH) has decided to lift the camp that ten days ago has outside the headquarters of Liberbank, in the arcaded square installed.
It has done after meeting with the financial institution, but leaves open the possibility of reassembling next June 20, the date on which he will meet with the bank. If the negotiations do not bear fruit discarded not start new protests from June 21.
During the meeting this Wednesday PAHs has discussed the situation in six cases be one year “stuck inaction of Liberbank “, as denounced by the platform. have also moved cases are pending in Torrelavega.
The PAH has revealed in a press release that those affected have flocked to the “teary and anxious” meeting, with a large “personal wear” after months without being able to negotiate with the bank to analyze their cases and prevent a debt not fit them for life that prevents them rebuild their lives and they are not left on the street for failing to pay a market rent. The anti evictions platform remember that in most cases, affected only charge the “basic social income”.
MONTHS OF PROTESTS
Just this Wednesday PAHs got Liberbank him they made contact with them, after nearly two weeks camped in the arcaded square. Although the meeting has not been a “trialogue” with the Government of Cantabria, as requested by the PAHs of Santander, the platform has welcomed the opening of negotiations after months of fruitless protests by request.
Acampada of PAHs front headquarters Liberbank
the antidesahucios activists of the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) took advantage of the celebration of the fifth anniversary of 15M to emulate the spirit of the movement and camp in Plaza arcaded. There the social explosion took place in Cantabria and in the same place the headquarters of Liberbank is located, the former Caja Cantabria.
Although up camping on last Friday to rest Monday had returned to Liberbank visible that was “deaf ear” to requests for solutions for cases of this platform. His intention was to keep the camp “as long as possible” until their grievances were heard.
For several weeks the PAHs has denounced the attitude of Liberbank to them, refusing to discuss and consider them partners in cases of evictions that are dealing with.
the pre-week camp held protests at the bank headquarters in Santander. Even tried even camping inside one of them, in Amos de Escalante, but were expelled by the National Police.
CASES payment in kind SALES & VULTURE FUNDS
their protests, activists complained that the bank refused to negotiate several cases the platform has been trying for months. One is the case of Gema, a divorcee unemployed who wants to accept payment in order not to drag debt interest has increased to 130,000 euros.
Activists of PAHs occupying an office Liberbank.
Other affected are a marriage autonomous and a man of 64 years. In both cases they tried to negotiate with Liberbank to restructure its debt to the inability to pay whole, and the bank has responded embargándoles and auctioning the property to a vulture fund.
“We were told that pre-menopausal what we could and we did but at the same time they took us to court to take away the house “denounces marriage, which says that since then the bank does not want to meet with them and have proposed lowering the debt to 300 euros per month and charge another 400 rental social.
“I’m still paying default interest despite auctioned my home,” says a man of 64, whose debt is half the value of your home. “I do not want to be home free, I want to pay. But something that is reasonable, because it is beyond repair, can be solved, but must do their part. “
DEMANDS OF PAHs
The PAHs wanted this meeting were three bands with the Government of Cantabria, demanding to legislate in the community for what is called ‘the five PAHs’, ie, five measures for mortgages, which are in lieu of retroactive pay, affordable rent, stop evictions, social housing and guaranteed supplies.
in this case negotiated, at least, cases of Gemma and those affected by the sale of their homes to a vulture fund, and try to get a solution that benefits all parties.
the PAHs is one of the movements that more concrete the principles of 15M, and helped put on the public agenda (and electoral problems) than previously considered a private problem and particularly without regard to the situation of the financial sector.
Among the changes initiated following the movement of the ‘outraged’ and its influence on the political agenda, the Government of Cantabria has set up an Office of Emergency housing and announced a stock of social rented flats, and the house of Parliament this Monday takes several parliamentary initiatives in housing
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