The Supreme Court issued a red card to the Ministry of Housing and Amidar (photo: official website, Il Yitzhar, Globes)
Last month, the Supreme Court passed an important verdict against the Amidar company and the Ministry of Housing.
In the resounding verdict, the judges came out against the inequality, the injustice, and the methods by which the Amidar company operates, against the residents of the public housing.
The ruling can and should be the turning point in the courts' relationship with Amidar and the Ministry of Housing because it exposes their legal abuse of public housing residents.
The trial dealt with a man who was defined as an "invader" by the Amidar company and the housing ministry, even though he claimed he met the conditions of a continuing tenant and lived in his parents' apartment all his life.
As a precedent, the judges challenged the method of "Amidar's circle visits" and the mortgage company's abuse of its tenants and the entire method by which they decide to evict tenants from their homes.
Judge Yosef Elron came out against the ease with which they try to throw a person out of his house, while not taking into account his condition and the effects that talking about will have on that person's life.
In this context, Judge Elron said, "The same is true in the case before us, where the consequences of evicting the appellant from his apartment could be disastrous. I therefore cannot accept the uprooting of the appellant from his familiar and supportive environment on the basis of "circle visit" reports that are sparse in details, the accuracy of which, as mentioned, can be questioned.
A housing apartment in Givatayim where time stood still in the 1960s (Photo: Courtesy of those photographed, Niki Truk)
Judge Elron also referred to the constant and repeated justifications of the Ministry of Housing that the evacuation of families to the street was done in order to house other eligible families and claimed "Indeed, public housing is a limited and valuable resource, but it must not be at the expense of the weakest of the weak in Israeli society. Not on the thin shoulders of the appellant and his ilk, the plight of others must be solved."
Elron emphasized several times in the judgment the imbalance in the power relations between the mortgage company and the tenants of the public housing and emphasized the great importance that the court should help the underprivileged.
"The appellant is standing on the edge of the abyss. He cried out before us and expressed his plea and his great distress. I feel that this is the case in which it would be right to lend him a hand. This court must be careful and help as much as it can to those who need it the most and this is how I see the case of the appellant before us ."
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"Placing an obstacle for the blind"
Supreme Court Judge Anat Biron also cast doubt on the Amidar company's circuit reports and said, "However, it is clear that these reports do not predict everything and that the claimant of rights in public housing must be allowed an adequate opportunity to point out flaws in the reports or otherwise contradict the factual picture that emerges from them.
Biron also pointed out that these reports are structured in such a way as to "place an obstacle for the blind" and added that in today's process the tenants have no real opportunity to present their version to the Housing Ministry committees. This ruling was made against the background of the fact that it was only recently decided to renew the evictions of
hundreds Families living in public housing Already in 2017, an inter-ministerial committee, the Barbiei Committee, called for a halt to all evictions in public housing, but the Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of Finance buried the committee's conclusions.
Last year, the Ministry of Housing once again declared the freeze on evictions following discussions in the Economic Committee that revealed the heartache caused to the families of the evacuees.
Unfortunately, in the last two months the new minister, Yitzhak Goldenknopf returned and authorized the housing companies to evict hundreds of families and it is important to mention that the evictions are done without the tenants' real ability to defend themselves from the cruel legal arm of Amidar and the housing companies.
Also, it is important to remind the Minister of Housing and all the decision makers that the main reason for the evictions of many families who are supposed to be evicted in the coming months - the elderly, the disabled, single mothers and children - is those circuit reports whose credibility the Supreme Court has cast a heavy shadow on.
This is a great injustice done to thousands of families who may lose everything.
And what is the reaction of the Ministry of Housing?
The Ministry of Housing and the Minister of Housing are ignoring the evictions in the meantime, but it is important that they understand that this important ruling is a warning light regarding the evictions as well, and in general regarding all the abusive behavior of the neighboring companies towards the tenants that has been exposed time and time again in discussions in the Knesset, in the media and now in court the top
Neither the public, nor the Knesset, nor the court will allow this abuse of the helpless to continue.
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