About 150 residents of the poorest neighborhood in Barcelona they have demonstrated this Friday under the slogan “against poverty, unemployment and evictions; for a decent life”
about 150 residents of Ciutat Meridiana They have gone out this Friday to the street to say enough is enough. The protest began at 5:30 p.m. in the neighborhood’s Red Square and has partially cut off the C-17 on the side of the entrance to Barcelona. Summoned by the neighborhood association -converted years ago into a sort of neighborhood housing union- they have demonstrated under the slogan “against poverty, unemployment and evictions; for a decent life”.
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From the organization they denounce that the 2022 It has started worse than it ended in 2021, which did not go exactly well, with evictions every week due to complaints of banks and investment funds, owners of the occupied housing stock in the enclave before the lack of social flats in the city.
They also point out that the North Zone by Nou Barris –Torre Baró, Vallbona and Ciutat Meridiana– is one of the places in the Catalan capital in which the pandemic has hit the hardest in terms of social consequences. “Being the poorest neighborhood in Barcelona we are seeing how in recent years it is raising the price of rentssupplies and even the most basic food. Everything goes up except our precarious jobs. Many, of course, in black, since nobody deigns to regularize our neighbors“, they conclude in the manifesto that they have read during the protest, which has ended in Fabra i Puig.