"There are twice as many
second homes
as social housing in the Basque Country",
compares the collective Herrian Bizi ("To stay in the Basque Country"), thus putting the finger on the strong inequalities of this territory where the number of people on the street has doubled in eight years, according to the Abbé Pierre Foundation.
The latter is part of the thirty or so associations, political parties and unions which mobilized 3,500 people in early April in Bayonne, the only city in the region to respect the quota of social housing to which 72% of local households can claim.
Like protesters chanting “Aski!”
(“stop”), more and more anonymous people are urging local elected officials to do more, in particular through tags targeting transaction or real estate promotion agencies and second homes.
Inspired by the revival of Corsican activism, some even threaten to make
"the bombs speak",
recalling, five years after the dissolution of ETA, the darkest hours of this…
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