At the time of the eviction, in December it will three years, ibtissam I was pregnant with her youngest child and had a son two years, in addition to the two oldest. Her husband had lost his job and they had to choose between feeding their children or paying the rent. They chose the former, needless to say. After months of a lot of anxiety about the eviction process, Finally, on the third launch date, the family decided to hand over the keys and leave so that the children would not have to go through the stress and violence of a police eviction. The social services of South Ravalneighborhood in which the family lived and still has the network, housed them from temporary way in a tourist apartment block in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, while his turn came at the emergency table, collapsed for years, and with a waiting list of an average of two years.
That time was the one that this family had in the apartment of Saint Columbus, where they still reside, when ibtissam received the long-awaited call from her social worker informing her that she had finally been assigned an emergency floor. “The joy was tremendous. My children were super excited. They were finally going to have her room! & Rdquor ;, remembers the woman. She asked where the flat was and her interlocutor told her that she didn’t know. ibstissam, mother of four children under 2, 5, 11 and 15 years, He didn’t insist either. They were already used to making a considerable trip on the subway each day to and from from Santa Coloma to Raval, where do they still have school, doctors and friends.
“There I collapsed, I couldn’t think anymore”
They gave him only one address: Llinars del Valles street. Googlemaps through, arrived. The flat was in Barcelonain the good shepherdnear the coastal round, almost as far from Raval that Santa Coloma. “If the floor was fine, nothing happened, that was not the problem & rdquor ;, the woman insists. The problem came when she, a few goals from the number she was looking for, she saw some young men shooting each other in the street. “There I collapsed. I couldn’t think anymore& rdquor ;, remembers the still anguished woman. The day of the visit to the apartment, which was the day of the signing – they were not allowed to see it beforehand – there were a few days left before her eldest daughter – 15 years old, now, 14, then – left the hospital clinic, where she was admitted to the psychiatric area for a serious drug abuse problem and the related mental health problems.
“I couldn’t accept that floor and put my daughter there. She could not. She could not. I think any mother can understand my situation & rdquor ;, the woman insists. She then presented the pertinent arguments that explained the reasons for the rejection, which were rejected and, her family, expelled from the emergency table.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen to us now. The apartment we are in is for people on the emergency table waiting list, but we are not in that situation anymore. We have been kicked off the table and I don’t understand why they don’t give us one second opportunity. For me the most important thing is protect my daughter, is it really that hard to understand?&rdquor ;, regrets this mother, sheltered by the neighborhood group Raval Rebel, who demands the Barcelona’s town hall a urgent meeting and the readmission of this family to the table in the position in which he was.
Since Raval Rebel They also denounce that they made him sign the acceptance of the dismissal of your appeal “with shows bad faith“. “She was summoned to the office for her renewal as a subsidized housing applicantthey did not explain to him beforehand what he was signing, and it was only after he had stamped his signature that he was told that he had signed the communication from his ejection from the table“, they indicate from the neighborhood platform.
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The protection of his eldest daughter -in the allegations the woman not only delivered the medical reportsbut also some of the complaints filed in the Mossos d’Esquadra the multiple times in which the minor has run away from home-, but not the only one. “The flat has two small rooms in which two beds and a wardrobe do not fitin addition to the fact that the area is very far from the school, in the Raval, which means long round trip daily commute to school with the three eldest, which makes it difficult reconciliation of daily lifeas we have been experiencing since december 2019“, concludes the woman.
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Municipal sources point out that women can now file an appeal something that, they assure, they will help him to do. “We will ask you to register an instance in the Ciutat Vella Housing Officewhich will be treated as a appeal appeal, and will correspond to permanent committee of the Barcelona Housing Consortium solve it valuing all the allegations made, that will be reviewed again,” explains a municipal voice, indicating that the family will in no case be expelled from their current accommodation until the situation is resolved.