I am looking for a flat. Like every day, I open one of the 800 applications that promise me that finding my house will be a really cool process and not the odyssey that we all know it to be. Once the sieve has been made to discard dumps, cubbyholes and any other type of housing trifle, I see a flat that looks pretty. Is very expensive, but I’ve already assumed that it is what it is. Contact with the real estate agent to arrange a visit and I receive a warning via email: “To rent this flat it is important that you comply with the following requirements: current labor documentation, employment contract and two last pay slips that reflect income equivalent to one and a half times plus the rental value, current valid identification (DNI, NIE or Passport), the first month of rent or proportional part of the month to enter to live and the cost of agency and contract is 10% of the annuity, plus VAT & rdquor ;.
Yes? Are only these requirements important? Do you not also want a quarter of my liver, unicorn blood and the guard and custody of my future creatures? I am 31 years old, I am self-employed, and I want to rent an apartment for myself. I suspected that I am not the ideal tenant profile, but this lapidary email has just confirmed it for me. I think in the privilege of having a regular work contract: double payments, unemployment, paid leave. I think about how it has become a privilege from another era, the same one in which being a mileurista was an insult. And I think of all the privileges that I have over so many other people; for white, for media, for solvent.
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Lola Armadàs, a resident of Barcelona, denounced in a report in Betevé (this Betevé they want to rob of culture), that she had problems finding a flat despite showing that she has the money to pay for it. The reason? She is a single mother and real estate agencies have made it very clear: we prefer a couple or a traditional family. Straight, surely. And with white skin. They never say this, no; but those who have suffered this discrimination know it very well.