Home to Live brand new demonstration for December 12

A Home to Live, which today mobilized tens of thousands of people throughout the country in defense of housing, marked a new demonstration for December 12, they told Lusa representatives of the platform.

More than 30 cities in Portugal have today left the streets for the “right to live”, within the national demonstration called by that platform, which requires the reversal of the new rental law, among other measures.

“They will not rob us of the right to live” is the common motto of 32 protests for the right to housing that took place in Angra do Heroísmo, Aveiro, Beja, Braga, Bragança, Castelo Branco, Caldas da Rainha, Coimbra, Covilhã, Évora, Faro, Funchal (morning concentration and afternoon demonstration, Grândola, Guarda, Guimarães, Horta, Leiria, Lisbon, Marinha Grande, Nazaré, Ponta Delgada, Portalegre, Portimão, Samora Correia, Santarém, Setúbal, Sines, Torres Novas, Viana do Castelo, Vila Real and Viseu.

To the housing policies adopted by the Government, Casa Para Viver, a platform that brings together a hundred associations and collectives for housing and has already mobilized thousands of people on the streets on several dates, over the last three years, counterproposes more regulation: of rents, contracts, evictions, return homes, local housing, property speculation.