Etxebizitza Sindikatua denounces that the evicted family in Erandio is the victim of fraud

Etxebizitza Sindikatua has reported that the family evicted from the Aldaieta bidea 7 portal in Astrabudua (Erandio, Bizkaia) were victims of a scam by the company ‘Your best loan’ eight years ago.

As the union explains in a note, the lender “forced him to give him the house as collateral to receive a loan of 7000 eurosimposed unlawful clauses that increased the value interest up to more than 60,000 euros“When the affected individual defaulted on payments, an eviction process began and was completed on Tuesday.

Now, with the “abuse clauses” she signed that increase the interest on the loan, the company has kept the house even though the affected person filed a fraud complaint against her six years ago, leading to a legal procedure. process that remains open today, according to the housing association. “The company has kept the house, even if the court will ultimately rule that it is a fraud, for a loan of 7,000 euros,” he warned.

The only source of income of the affected person, 70 years old and with a disability of 69%is the widow’s pension, approximately 700 eurosand the moratorium has been applied several times over the past two years. However, the latest vulnerability report was unfavorable, which made the launch possible.

The union regrets that “the institutions have dedicated themselves to vilifying and blackmailing with alternatives to misery.” “The institutions have only offered a temporary alternative: a six-month rent for a 70-year-old woman affected by a scam that took away the house she had lived in for more than 40 years,” he said.

For its part, the Erandio Town Hallhas assured the press in a message that it was decided in June to transfer a municipal home to this citizen; that this citizen has had the keys to the said municipal housing since yesterday, Monday; that the apartment in which this citizen lived on a rental basis belongs to a private individual. In addition, the municipal council has requested the Basque government to allocate housing directly to this citizen.”

However, Etxebizitza Sindikatua denies that the municipal council has given up municipal housing, assuring that it only offered a six-month rental price, and that this temporary alternative was “confirmed only one day before the eviction”.

Furthermore, the union says that the apartment where the affected person lived until today was his property, in which he had lived for more than 40 years. “How else can I put up that house as collateral to gain access to the credit for which it is issued?”has been asked

Etxebizitza Sindikatua also reported that as a result of the police action this morning, two people have been arrested, one of them has been transferred to a nearby clinic due to injuries caused by the police, another 8 people have been identified, some of them have been reported and there are numerous people got injured.

Finally, the Socialist Housing Union has criticized the character of these lenders who “take advantage of the vulnerable situation of the proletariat to enrich themselves through the housing sector”. “They offer ostensibly ‘easy’ and ‘fast’ loans to vulnerable families, which turns out to be a scam, to ultimately do business with their homes,” he added.