Nadia and Diana, with minors in their care, were going to be evicted today, as were Clara Isabel and her family, in which there are also children, or Mari Carmen, who like the previous ones lived in rent after having granted dación some time ago. in payment of the apartments whose mortgages could not be paid to Banco de Sabadell
For now, thanks to neighborhood solidarity, they have achieved a postponement and are staying in their respective homes, according to the Carolines Neighborhood Union, which has mediated in these cases, as it has been doing in many others, since the trickle of evictions in Alicante is constant.
Precisely this week, the Union organized a protest, together with the Cometas y Sonrisas association, PAH-Obra Social and the Social Rights Information and Complaint Point, in front of the offices of the Solvia real estate agency in Alicante.
The reason is to demand that Solvia - a real estate company created at the time by the Bank of Sabadell to manage the large portfolio of properties that the 2008 crisis left in its hands - to assume its responsibility as manager of the social rental contracts of 18 Alicante families. .
As in the cases mentioned, these are people who began to rent when they granted dación in payment for their apartments to the Bank of Sabadell. Currently, these homes belong to the vulture fund Promontoria Coliseum Real Estate S.L. Sources from the union affirm that "Sabadell, a bank rescued with public money, has ignored the neighbors who have been paying it for years, to leave its apartments at the mercy of real estate speculation."
In his opinion, Solvia, as manager of the rental contracts, should be responsible for mediating with the new owner and obtaining the renewal of the contracts. However, the lack of information "leaves these 18 neighbors in a situation of uncertainty and helplessness."
While the negotiations drag on, the rental contracts end and the fund that now owns the properties takes legal action against 11 of those affected.
Given the imminent eviction of several of them and "Solvia's lack of response to the calls and emails from the Union", the protest was called to demand that Solvia intercede for those affected and put real solutions on the table. What solutions? Social rental contracts, either in the current home of the affected people or in another property, since the purchase of the apartment at the price sought by the fund is not affordable for them.
At the moment, neighborhood solidarity and the visibility of the actions achieve some partial victory in the form of a postponement, but the organizers of the protest advocate "the stoppage of all evictions of vulnerable families and the immediate allocation of housing under social rental regime "..
