Non-eviction as a State solution

Identifier:  TFG:366

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFG366

Authors:  Escuté Trilla, Patrícia

Abstract:
In spite of the recent increase in conjunctural evictions due to the economic recession, previously and chronically other structural evictions have existed: those which affect the most vulnerable people in society and which occur in the slums in large cities. The cases of La Teja (Montevideo) and Campclar (Tarragona) exemplify two neighbourhoods which despite being in different political and social contexts, have both followed a similar process with regard to housing. Both slums, where the State repeatedly intervenes have a large amount of subsidised housing where irregular squatting or occupancy has been frequent. However, in both cases, the State has decided not to evict those people who have occupied these council houses. Is the State response a good solution to the problems which arise in these neighbourhoods, and does it guarantee the right to housing, or rather is it simply a solution to an administrative irregularity which consequently perpetuates the ghettoization in slums? The following article attempts to discuss this solution proposed by the Administration from a social and critical point of view, taking into consideration, on the one hand, the human and social right to housing, and on the other hand, the long term consequences of regulating these cases.