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The City Council will ask financial institutions to become involved in this matter, urging them to realize a census of empty homes in order to be used to rehouse families who do not have them.

The Councillor for Housing and Social Services in the City of Lorca, Fátima Mínguez, has reported that the government team in the city council requested at the next full declaration of Lorca as "Free Municipality of Evictions", confirming the willingness of the City Council collaborate with the courts in order to coordinate and study channels designed to ensure the permanence of families in their habitual residence.

The commitment of the Consistory includes following municipal undertaking measures in order to guarantee the right to decent housing, always to the extent that its powers permit, facing the housing emergency care.

It also expresses its opposition to any eviction housing in which they are living under.

Housing Edil explained that the City Council considers that supplies of water, electricity and gas are commodities that must remain guaranteed for all families.

So will collaborate with government in the implementation of actions to be developed to address emergency situations of housing, as are other administrations that hold competencies in housing exclusively.

In this line, will continue to provide information, guidance and advice to individuals and families affected by eviction or foreclosure, through the Department of Housing and put all measures at its disposal to facilitate the relocation of families affected provided that they are in a situation of social exclusion, where you can not prevent eviction.

To this end, will continue addressing the financial institutions operating in the municipality asking them to avoid orders release so that families residing in their residence not have to leave it, invoking the system of social rent.

Fátima Mínguez anticipated that the City shall take steps to encourage the large holders (financial institutions, banks and others ...), intended for empty houses of their property, families in social exclusion in social rental scheme measures.

In fact, it will ask financial institutions a census of empty homes owned by banks or financial institutions in order to be used to rehouse families without housing, pledging to maintain the Convention to the effect established with the Bar Association of Lorca .

The Councillor for Housing has stated that the request for declaration of the municipality of Lorca as "Free Municipality of Evictions" is based on the right of every human being to have decent housing.

This right is based on a set of items that require local, regional and state administrations to make it effective.

The economic situation we live in today, has among some of its most serious consequences, many families can not attend the fulfillment of the obligations arising from the payment of rents or, where appropriate, loans or mortgage loans transacted to acquire their housing ownership.

You are being doubly punished for such critical situation, losing not only jobs but also their residence.

This is a situation that can not be oblivious to the intervention of local authorities, must implement few are necessary actions to give shelter to the affected by the economic crisis citizenship, coupled in many cases the effects of the housing bubble .

Intervention materializes in actions, measures, programs, etc. to enable citizens to improve their situation.

It is for this reason that the city of Lorca confirms its intention to continue to act accordingly and cater to the residents affected by the situations described above, minimizing their situation residential exclusion.

Lorca, a pioneer in the agreement

The Office of Citizen Services of the Department of Housing is setting an example for other municipalities, like the agreement with the Bar Association, the first of its kind signed by a local administration of the region with a professional association of lawyers, as provides free legal support from the outset to avoid reaching a more complicated situation.

This Office received a total of 81 questions, 18 of which have been sent to the Bar.

Another 18 families have reached agreements with their banks, while another 8 have not a second to this service.

It should be noted that 15 people went to the office to clarify doubts and 7 families are in talks with their bodies to reach an agreement.

Cases sent to the Bar, to date there are 10 records and finished another 2 are solved in the absence of the report of attorney and 6 are making arrangements with banks.

The City Council is funding this agreement with a contribution to the Bar, in exchange for which lawyers inform families about the possibility of addressing the difficulties of mortgage payment from their usual homes;

personalized advice on specific procedures to be performed before or at the beginning of the situation of default on the mortgage;

help to find agreed between the debtor and the bank for situations that have improved outlook or with certain changes in the relationship can get effective solutions that do not result in foreclosure solutions;

and even use residential brokerage mechanisms for situations related to possible foreclosures.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca