Union Right to Housing, Union Tenants joins the national demonstration in Florence – ekuonews.it
ROME – The Tenants Union adheres to and participates in the national demonstration promoted for Saturday 26 March in Florence, by the workers of the GKN and in the appeal to bring together the disputes standing in the country that express a turning point in the basic addresses of work and society. “The right to housing is denied thanks to neoliberal policies, the same ones that deny the right to work and favor relocation – declares in a note the National Secretary of the Tenants Union Walter De Cesaris –. It is a shame that the government announces a war and rearmament that increases military spending by 13 billion in one stroke and does not spend a single euro to increase the supply of social rent accommodation ”.
“The ecological transition for us means a real house plan that increases the offer of social rent housing by 500 thousand units through the recovery and reuse of the immense real estate assets left empty and in decay. – continues the note – preferring spending rather than dropping real estate income. Fiscal justice for us means eliminating the advantageous legislation in favor of real estate rent for which today a landowner pays less taxes on the rent he receives than a worker pays taxes on the starvation wages he takes and for which the more wealthy the owner is and the less pays in proportion to his income “.
“From the anti-eviction pickets with which day by day we oppose the resistance to the passage from home to the sidewalk to which workers who lose their jobs are forced, we want to go on the offensive to claim everyone’s inalienable right to the dignity of living – urges the Tenants Union -. From the disputes against the scandal of houses without people and people without houses, starting with the denunciation of empty social housing, we want to move on to a generalized dispute that affirms that it is an outrage that a property is left empty when people are home and that if this property is public and is an even more serious crime “.
“From the denunciation ‘lose your job, lose your home’, we want to take the offensive ‘conquer the dignity of work, take back the right to housing’. With these contents on the 26th we will be in Florence at the national demonstration of ‘Converge per insorgere’ “concludes the note.