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Izquierda Unida-Los Verdes (IU-LV) of Murcia has submitted to the plenary session next Thursday, October 28, a motion asking the council to draw up by the Autonomous Community an agreement for the creation of offices that serve the affected by foreclosures and evictions.

Councillor leftist coalition in the capital, Esther Herguedas, stated in a press conference in the city there are 1,600 people who as a result of the crisis have lost their jobs and can not afford your mortgage, so who are forced to flee their homes.

According Herguedas, some of these affected banks loans signed on contract terms "abusive", coming to pay a monthly mortgage for 800 euros when they were in employment status of risk and earned a few thousand euros per month.

This, added the mayor, joined the "bad" regulation of the Spanish banking system, which requires debt to keep the mortgage bank after being evicted, and the reduction of the valuation of homes, which means that embargoes do not serve to replace the debt with the bank.

"People have become mortgaged victims of a widespread mortgage fraud. The banks who provided mortgages and granted at risk, those who overestimated the property appraisal, inflating the price and increasing debt."

Herguedas has accused the government of "not putting any solution about it, and to develop legislation" which only has promoted access to housing ownership, which has led to over-indebtedness of households, leaving alternatives as rent. "

It has therefore asked the consistory to create offices Murcia legal advice to those concerned about the conditions of their mortgages, making the task of mediation with lending institutions to find solutions and social needs assessment.

On the other hand, Maria Jesus Martin, member of the Platform for those Affected by the Mortgage set up in the hamlet of El Palmar, has highlighted the lack of support for terminally ill and stressed that many of those affected are immigrants without family to to go in these cases.

Another of the injured, Jon Taibo, a father of four children, has emphasized the need for government to get involved to resolve the "difficult" situation in which people go through who are forced to flee their homes after staying in Stop by the crisis.

Source: IURM