The Generalitat has put into service the technical office of the expropriation and joint appraisal project of the Venus building in the neighborhood of La Mina de Sant Adrià de Besòs. This is the last procedure prior to the demolition and to give an agreed exit to the 243 affected families so that they can have a new accommodation.
At the moment, in what the mayor of Sant Adrià de Besòs, Filo Cañete, considers to be "one of the most anticipated actions" in the Mina neighborhood and especially for the residents of the Venus block, the expropriation technical office It will be installed in some premises of the Mina library. There they will begin to attend to those affected and to negotiate a dignified exit to promote the procedures prior to the execution of the demolition. Later, according to the mayor herself, it will be moved to another location closer to the building.
Fifteen months it has taken the Department of Employment, Afers Socials i Família to activate the mechanism that may allow the current tenants to find an alternative. Most want to be compensated with decent housing, so the technicians must study each of the cases before passing them a proposal. "We have waited more than twenty years," recalls Paqui Jiménez, the neighborhood activist who has acted as a spokesperson and who led the neighborhood movement that promoted the crowdfunding campaign to hire a law firm to defend their interests before the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC). This ended up ruling that the competent administrations should restart the process that had been paralyzed for twenty years.
The neighbors opposed the initial appraisal that the Consorci de la Mina, in which the Generalitat, the Diputación and the Barcelona and Sant Adrià town councils participate, had carried out on the houses and demanded that the residents pay 30,000 euros to access a new flat, something that the TSJC sentence judged as a flagrant violation of the rights of the neighbors.
Finally, the Department of Labor, Social Affairs and Family will provide 12.6 million to start the process.
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