Camping Delivery Insurance letter with nine housing requirements

A Camped in Porto, which today meets with the President of the Republic, will give you an open letter listing the claims for the right to housing, as well as a resignation from the Minister of the Interior.

The letter addressed to António José Seguro, to which Lusa had access today, had already been voted on and discussed in the popular assemblies of the movement and is part of today’s meeting that Porto and Lisbon will meet with the President, with a call for it to have “a relevant role in promoting institutional dialogue and raising awareness of the effectiveness of the constitutional right to housing”.

The missive lists, and contextualizes, the nine claims of the Campada, starting with the reversal of the rental law, the end of the evictions and demolitions without alternative housing, the brake on the purchase of real estate by real estate funds, the increase of the public housing park (“wholely in supported income”), the public recovery of vacant properties and the application of ceilings to rents.

The list also lists the imposition of pressure mechanisms for the rental of empty houses, the end of tax benefits to real estate speculation, and the prohibition and repeal of Local Housing licenses in housing properties.

In addition to being able to promote such dialogue with the Government, remember, Insurance has “the power to veto the diplomas of the Assembly of the Republic and to request the Constitutional Court to prevent its constitutionality”.

“ If amendments to the lease law are to be approved, we call on you to consider making use of those prerogatives”, they appeal.

The movement notes that, after more than a month of camping, which began on October 10 in Praça D. João I, they have fought for the “defence and promotion of compliance with Article 65 of the Constitution”, which enshrines the right to housing, and in each popular assembly have heard testimonies of people in situations of housing precariousness and of those who for years have “only received indifference” from decision makers.

Looking to speak for everyone, that is why these demands are put forward here, and have also been discussed in order to “inform the ongoing citizen legislative initiative, now under investigation”.

The letter also explains the consequences of the police load that were targeted in the early morning of November 1, the third since the start of the Camp, in which dozens of people were injured after the PSP resorted to batonada, dogs and an agent to the civilian, already on Avenida dos Aliados, where there was a second intervention, having pulled from the firearm.

They ask António José Seguro “to ask the Prime Minister for political accountability and the resignation of the Minister of Internal Administration”, Luís Neves, for those who also ask for criminal action, and “the full clarification of who determined the operation and the respective chain of command, the preservation of the recordings of the agents’ chambers, an independent and public clearance of the facts and the return of the seized goods”.

The meeting between António José Seguro and the Camps is scheduled for this morning.

The current protests against the housing crisis began in Porto on October 10 and expanded to Lisbon, but have also motivated concentrations in other cities.

The PSP's action to disperse the campgrounds and remove the tents in Rossio, in Lisbon, and in Praça D. João I, in Porto, led to dozens of arrests and caused dozens of wounded, motivating criticism from various quadrants.

The Public Prosecutor has, however, asked the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality of the 1974 rule that states that a demonstration has the time limit at 00:30.

The protesters demand, among other things, the reversal of the new rental law, a stop to housing purchase by real estate funds and “truely accessible” roofs to income.