Málaga (EFE).- Luisa Heredia, from Malaga, who this Monday is celebrating a week on a hunger strike to demand decent housing for her family, claims to feel “weak and exhausted”, but is determined to continue with the protest until she is provide a housing solution for their possible eviction, scheduled for May 8.
“They have told me to give up, but it is that, my life or a roof”, warned the neighbor of the Palomares neighborhood, who will continue without eating until the administrations provide her with a flat for her and her four children, three of them minors. .
In statements to the media in front of the Municipal Housing Institute of Malaga, Heredia explained between sobs that the first days of fasting he was visited by a doctor and “saw that he had high blood pressure, but he was doing well”, although the day before yesterday he became “very bad” and now feels “weak and very exhausted”.
“delicate” state of health
According to the Platform for People Affected by the Mortgage (PAH), the woman has been treated these days by the health services for the effects derived from the lack of food and the analyzes have confirmed that her state of health “is delicate”.
Heredia lives on a minimum vital income of 870 euros for her and her children, one of whom is eight years old with spina bifida, a disease that affects the spine and can cause physical and intellectual disabilities.
In March he managed to stop his eviction from the house that he has occupied intermittently for thirteen years, but he already has a date for a new release on May 8.
According to Heredia, from the Housing Institute they have told him that they are going to negotiate “with the vulture fund” which is the owner of the house to try to obtain a social rent more in line with the situation of this vulnerable family.
In 2014, after the birth of his daughter and the medical complications that arose from his illness, he passed the deadline stipulated to renew the application for the concession of social protection housing that he presented in 2005, for which he lost the seniority favored in the selection draw.
“Once they kick me out, I have all the free time in the world, I’ll bring a mattress and my clothes and I’ll stay here, my children are fine,” Heredia insisted, stressing that he does not refuse to pay, “but he needs “help” .
The representative of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), Mónica Pérez, has stated that “Luisa is the tip of the iceberg of a real problem” that affects thousands of families in Spain: “She belongs to a vulnerable family profile and it must have the protection of the institutions”, he has had an impact.
“There are hundreds of families with this problem, despite the fact that there are more than one hundred thousand empty homes,” Pérez said, despite the fact that for now “they only offer three days in a hostel and then if I have seen you I don’t remember,” he concludes. .