4 1 JOIN THE HOUSING ACTION DAY 28.03.2020 The grabbing Repression Repression, Housing for people – not for profit! of private property and criminalisation eviction and Information for actions in Europe can be found on the page of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing & to the City and the struggle of the housing dispossession in www.housingnotprofit.org The call in many languages, information material against auctions movement New Democracy’s and further information can also be found on the website www.housing-action-day.net in Greece today in Serbia Greece on the problems that come as Instead, City officials bypass the debt the Kukor family had towards goes back about a decade. At witnesses justified the necessity housing, as well as the economic their right to housing has left Since New Democracy News from Athens, results from Airbnb and Golden law in order to remove the family the ex-husband on the basis of his the peak of the debt crisis, in of the movement’s actions in IN RECENT YEARS the country insecurity faced by many people due ON A COLD MORNING in many in a state of constant fear. DIMITRIS INDARES was still in his was elected with a “law and 15.02.2020 Visa program and we have formed from the profitable land. The court expenses. The total sum of 2011, the government attempted the promotion of social justice. has been hit by four memorandums to unstable economic conditions. the autumn of 2017, a group of The crackdown on housing rights pyjamas when the police knocked order” agenda last July, the certain proposals on the issue. Also property has been erased from the around 2.000 euros was too much to balance its budget through a The defendant was cleared of all – or government bailouts – and Significantly, since historically the neighbours, family members and didn’t go unanswered. Individual on his door in the neighbourhood police have been acting like Housing Crisis and we have made many proposals on register even though they have for a poor family living on social regressive tax on homeowners, charges. a programme of austerity has prices of land and buildings were housing activists rally to a call acts of resistance led to a formation of Koukaki, in Athens, in the early an occupation army in Greek Movements Today the use of empty buildings for social been living in it since 1982. On the benefits. The Roof intervened controversially collected through Not only has the movement ensued. This precarious and relatively stable or increasing, the of a family in distress. They are of a nationwide movement and hours of Wednesday, December 18. cities, routinely violating human housing and primarily on the need 15th of October, the demolition and visited the bailiffs office and the electricity bill. Lower and not been intimidated by the unstable situation has given rise to act of investing family savings into locked inside their apartment, an organisation that stands at the Not long after that, he was lying rights and dignity. Arbitrary MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE that for the formation of an Observatory of their home was enabled by a demanded that he renounce his 500 middle class households, already criminalisation of its actions, but a diverse opposition movement, one or more houses was considered confronted by two goons and a forefront of the housing justice down on the floor of his home’s detentions, torture, beatings, Greece is going to face a housing on housing issues and needs in police brigade that was brought euro fee that was a part of the debt. affected by rising unemployment also the trial served as a moment including groups opposed to the a form of social security. lawyer representing a man who struggle – the Roof. terrace, with a Special Operations teargas attacks, raids crisis soon. What we say is that Greece. On the 28th of March, to intimidate citizens, who had After media coverage and public and wage cuts, were faced with or reactivation after the relative auction of properties. I am an However, during the 1990s the claims to be the new owner of the policeman’s boot on his head. He in cinemas and nightclubs, public the housing crisis is here! Our we hope that we will have actions gathered in solidarity to protect the pressure, he renounced his part of electricity cutoffs when they could demobilisation of the past couple activist belonging to this opposition traditional Greek housing system home. A bailiff is standing on the Roots of the eviction and his two adult sons were beaten humiliation, verbal abuse, have been movement has started actions in many European cities for the only home of the Osman family. In the money. The rest of the amount not pay the tax. This saw the rise of years. It is likely that the movement and by writing this paper was transformed. Prior to this side, waiting for the family to sign epidemic up, handcuffed, blindfolded and the order of the day. already from 2013, mainly on the right to housing with the common the preparation for the demolition, was collected at various solidarity of neighbourhood committees evictions and foreclosures that will I seek to share my own personal period only a very small minority a paper renouncing their claim on taken under police custody. What Even so, as long as the field of auctions and evictions. demand “Housing for people not the furniture had been brought events. In the end, solidarity that would protest at the power affect up to 200.000 households in experience of the challenge we of Greek people were aware of loans the property. Ten policemen are Before the breakup of Yugoslavia, was Indares’ crime? He had refused arbitrary violence of the police After these years of crisis, we are for profit”. out of the window as was Susan triumphed and the debt was payed company and extra-legally the next few years will be met with face in Greece. I also explain how and so-called ‘plastic’ money (the waiting outside the door and in the more than 50 percent of all to let the police go through his home was directed towards protesters, now enlarging our interests and Alijev, a woman diagnosed with in full. This family of three, now has reconnect the electricity. increased grassroots opposition. we (as a movement) frame the credit card). This changed in the courtyard, preventing a group of housing was “societal housing”, without a warrant in its operation youth, students, squatters, struggles on the housing problems TONIA KATERINI cancer. Following the demolition, a home to live in. The Coordination of relationship between housing and 1990s when people started to take housing activists from entering the provided through workers’ monthly to evict the squat that was right next homosexuals, immigrants or the more generally. In a country that the Belgrade Secretariat for Collectives of Thessaloniki was THEODOROS KARYOTIS debt as a process which seizes out loans. In this regard, Greeks stairwell. contributions. In the early 1990s, door. marginalised, the reaction of the before crisis had 85% of home Inspection Affairs, announced the February 15, 2020 formed in 2015 to bring together land and property, as well as were won over by the aggressive The family had fallen into the need to fill up state coffers Indares’ profile is not that public opinion to daily gross human ownership, this percentage has condemnation of the citizens in neighbourhood assemblies, how we challenge this practice. marketing campaigns of banks. As debt a few years back, but they to fund the military during the of a squatter. A 55-year old film rights violations was at best timid. decreased in only six years to 74% News from Belgrade and Novi Sad, solidarity with the evicted family, The local branch of the Roof in trade unions, associations and During the last six years the Greek a result, house prices rose and the have since managed to repay the Yugoslav war led to the decision to director and film school teacher, a Sadly, such abhorrent practices and thus has increased the number 14.02.2020 while the City authorities in their Novi Sad had its monthly meeting, parties that had been fighting population has been confronted by profit made by banks increased loan. The court ignored this fact, allow public companies and state homeowner, politically moderate are made possible by the active or of tenants. Today the housing statement accused them of abusing where a university professor of dispossession in the previous a widespread process of property from 20% in 1990, to 60% in 2000 proceeded with the foreclosure and institutions to sell off societal flats. with conservative views, working passive support of a part of Greek problems are related with four January 30, 2020 the sick. It was not solidarity engineering, Zvonko Rakarić talked years. Agglutinated around a repossession which, in more general and as high as 200% after Greece the bailiff auctioned their flat with The housing fund was hard to get his sons through society who have been convinced different issues: that caused the deterioration of about his housing problem. Unlike set of demands to protect the The grabbing of private property terms, equates to the seizure of both hosted the Olympic Games in 2004. an estimated worth of €90.000 for abolished and all forms of state and university. One could say he is that in the battle against the internal 1. The ongoing and everyday ALTHOUGH THE EVICTION of Susan Alijev’s health, but the sole most other people who are beset primary residence of over-indebted and the struggle against auctions public and private (which this paper Before the start of the crisis in 2009, merely €25.000.