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- Now Murcia has registered a motion for the next plenary session that raises issues such as that the City Council includes a gender perspective, in official documents on housing
- The motion also demands that the elaboration of an operating regulation for municipal dwellings assigned to women victims of sexist violence be studied, as already exists in other municipalities
NOW MURCIA demands that municipal housing policies give priority to vulnerable women and victims of sexist violence.
Councilman Miguel Angel Alzamora stresses that "according to reports from, among others, Amnesty International and the EU, the evictions and the difficulties in accessing decent housing have more and more the face of women, that is to say, the problem of housing has feminized and affects mostly single women with minors ".
"Therefore," he says, "it is urgent that our administrations and institutions, in this case the City of Murcia, activate effective public policies to protect vulnerable women and victims of sexist violence."
The mayor explains that some of the reasons that make women one of the social groups with greater difficulty in accessing housing are "the increase of single-parent families with minor children, the obligation to report in the event of gender-based violence for to be able to access a social housing, a precarious and very unequal labor market with respect to gender, or the increase and feminization of poverty ".
Given this situation, now Murcia has registered a motion for the next plenary session that raises questions such as the City Council includes the gender perspective, prioritizing vulnerable women and victims of sexist violence, in the official documents on housing of the City Council of Murcia, as ordinances and regulations, municipal plans, or studies.
The motion also proposes that protocols and changes be established in housing adjudication regulations so that municipal social workers who prepare reports can assign victims priority access to a social housing "without demanding the presentation of protection orders or police complaints or judicial. "
The text that Now Murcia will present in the Plenum includes, in addition, to establish the appropriate coordination with the courts to ensure that no woman victim of sexist violence is left homeless because of an eviction, and that the Community
Autónoma and the City of Murcia work together in an Immediate Housing Guarantee Plan for all women who, prior assessment, are considered victims of sexist violence.
The motion also demands that the elaboration of an operating regulation for municipal dwellings assigned to women victims of sexist violence be studied, as already exists in other municipalities.
Miguel Angel Alzamora recalls that the evictions for rent in the Region have increased in the second quarter of the year by 35.8%, and by 31.6% the evictions by execution (according to CGPJ, 2018), "although we still do not have differentiated data by age and sex. "
In this sense, in Spain "28.1% of single-parent families live in rental housing, compared to 15.6% of middle families, data similar to those of the Region of Murcia that translate into that there may be particularly negative effects on women's rights, since single-parent families are at greater risk of poverty and other forms of material deprivation. "
NOW MURCIA
Source: Ahora Murcia
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