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In Liège, the creation of a tenant union is looming: “you have to make a block to defend yourself against the abusive owners”

In Liège, the creation of a tenant union is looming: “you have to make a block to defend yourself against the abusive owners”
In Liège, the creation of a tenant union is looming: “you have to make a block to defend yourself against the abusive owners”

Concretely, it will be a question of offering the tenants for the permanence held by volunteers in order to answer all the questions relating to their accommodation and their right. Nathalie Dupont is an animator at CIEP. According to her, “Many people have integrated the idea that everything they deserve is to live in unhealthy accommodation“. What, what?”To exorbitant prices of real estate and the admission criteria of agencies which favor couples rather than solo mothers, for example“, she denounces.

50 candidates for a property

For a rental apartment, there are 50 candidates“Regrets the host.”The pressure is strong and, however, housing, there are, simply not necessarily accessible to allshe adds … And speculation excessively, privatization and lack of supervision of the market surely do not help“. So many residents turn to sometimes unsanitary homes,”But in their means“. The renovation of certain goods seems, in this case, to be a valid idea but, there too,”The most precarious people undergo the consequences “.

According to Slim Essaker, “renovating is good, but generally it induces an increase in rents“. An increase in rent that some tenants cannot afford.”Everyone is entitled to a dignified roof and yet unsanitary conditions is sometimes a sine qua non condition for access to housing“, Indignant the animators.

For all these reasons, the tenant union “is necessary because, when you pay your rent, who defends us?“This tool under construction will allow”to establish clear claims and no longer leave people alone in the face of their problems (threat of expulsion, insalubrity, etc.)” : “Together, we are always stronger“.

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