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The Govern and social organisations manage to rehouse 120 people evicted from B9 in Badalona
The Govern and social organisations have rehoused 120 vulnerable people after the eviction from B9. The Ayuntamiento de Badalona is criticised for its lack of action. Find out how the agreement was reached and what happens to those still on the street.
The Govern de Cataluña and several social organisations have managed to temporarily rehouse 120 of the 180 vulnerable people who were evicted from the former B9 institute in Badalona during the Christmas climate emergency. The consellera of Drets Socials i Inclusió, Mònica Martínez Bravo, pointed out the lack of response from the Ayuntamiento de Badalona to the situation, emphasising that the agreement reached made it possible to offer a residential alternative to most of those affected.
The agreement, which also involved the Síndica de Greuges, included those who had spent days sleeping under a bridge on the C-31, people who could not access the Mare de Déu de Montserrat parish due to neighbourhood pressure, and those occupying the former Can Bofí Vell shelter until Tuesday.
Martínez Bravo explained that around 60 people refused rehousing, attributing this decision to the lack of prior referral work by the Ayuntamiento. According to the consellera, the council only attended to the most extreme cases, covering barely 16% of the vulnerable people identified in B9.
During an interview on La Hora, the consellera again criticised the municipal inaction regarding Can Bofí Vell, which closed a few months ago. She recalled that she asked the mayor, Xavier Garcia Albiol, to reopen the masia to provide an immediate solution, but he refused, arguing that the space was not in suitable condition.
Despite the criticism, Martínez Bravo acknowledged that the situation in the settlement was complex and that there were some cases related to crime, although she insisted that most residents simply had no other housing alternative.