Winehole23
01-26-2021, 12:06 PM
Spain’s center-left government last week unveiled a controversial draft law that has incensed right-wing media pundits and political parties. The proposed law seeks to halt the eviction of squatters from the properties they have occupied until May 9, when Spain’s State of Alarm is scheduled to end. Most of the properties that will be affected belong to banks or other large institutional landlords.
As a police officer from Barcelona who specializes in evicting okupas told me (https://wolfstreet.com/2020/09/12/how-spain-became-a-squatters-paradise/) for a previous article I wrote on this issue, removing squatters from properties belonging to private equity funds is a particularly messy, drawn out process, largely because of the difficulty of identifying the actual owner of the property — Blackstone, for example, operates in Spain through dozens of different subsidiaries — and then tracking down a representative with whom to liaise. “This takes up a huge part of our day-to-day work,” he said.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/01/why-is-everyone-talking-about-squatters-rights-in-covid-ravaged-spain.html
As a police officer from Barcelona who specializes in evicting okupas told me (https://wolfstreet.com/2020/09/12/how-spain-became-a-squatters-paradise/) for a previous article I wrote on this issue, removing squatters from properties belonging to private equity funds is a particularly messy, drawn out process, largely because of the difficulty of identifying the actual owner of the property — Blackstone, for example, operates in Spain through dozens of different subsidiaries — and then tracking down a representative with whom to liaise. “This takes up a huge part of our day-to-day work,” he said.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/01/why-is-everyone-talking-about-squatters-rights-in-covid-ravaged-spain.html