See online: Collective for the Future of Homes (COPAF) ---- GATHERING IN
FRONT OF ADOMA HEADQUARTERS -- Friday April 19 from 4:33 p.m. 4 avenuePierre-Mendès France, Paris 13th behind the Gare d'Austerlitz - ---
Friday February 23, 2024, a meeting of the coordination of Adoma homes
was held, convened urgently in the face of a worrying situation. The
same morning at the Paris court at Porte de Clichy, 8 residents of
Parisian Adoma homes in the 10th, 13th and 19th arrondissements appeared
before the judge to be evicted because they were hosting a relative in
their accommodation.
Every week, nearly ten residents appear to be evicted for this reason.
When faced with a judge, they have no chance of getting through it even
with the support of a lawyer, quite simply because the current law, and
the contracts and regulations of managers, are against them.
Homes have always been a welcoming place for West African immigrants.
Accessing housing is a struggle for a large majority of people today, it
is even more so when you are an African immigrant. When you are
undocumented it is almost impossible: it is solidarity or the street.
Homes remain places of welcome, a foothold for our brothers in search of
a better future. This continues regardless of the reconstruction or
transformation of homes into "social residences".
Furthermore, in these residences our rights are very limited. We are
only allowed one key with the ban on changing our lock. We are not
allowed to install additional heating when the home heating is broken.
We experience intrusions into our living spaces in which managers'
employees take the liberty of entering whenever they want.
STOP evictions for hosting a loved one! Respect for the right to privacy
in one's main home - even in sheltered accommodation!.
Social residence is a "housing product" designed to house all types of
vulnerable groups for periods of 2 to 3 years. The projects that bring
about these transformations of homes are systematically carried out to
the detriment of current residents. Their opinion is never taken into
account regarding the specifications given to architects, they are
systematically excluded from decisions which concern the future of their
place of life. Although the principles which govern these
transformations state that their aim is to offer more dignified housing,
in reality, these transformations are in reality machines for expelling
immigrant workers, active or retired. And expulsion is an act with
serious consequences: loss of address and domicile in France, inability
to renew one's papers, loss of health coverage, difficulties in
obtaining or maintaining one's pension. In fact, it is a sentence of
expulsion from the country!
Once again, it is the most precarious populations who are paying the
price of the housing crisis while millions of homes remain vacant and
the public authorities refuse to finance more social housing and control
rents.
In the newly constructed buildings, everything is done to control and
suffocate the residents. The collective spaces, provided for by law in
this type of housing, which allow precarious people not to live
completely isolated, are largely reduced in size and come under the
control of managers. In several Adoma homes, delegates are fighting to
have free access to their collective rooms. In residences where common
spaces are reduced, convivial life and solidarity gradually disappear.
STOP non-concerted rehabilitations! Rehabilitation projects must be
built WITH and FOR residents.
Faced with expulsions, faced with the destruction of solidarity and
collective life in homes, we call on all residents of the homes and
their supporters to support the delegates of the COORDINATION OF
DELEGATES OF THE AD HOME
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4137
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