Housing is a major concern of residents and inhabitants of the neighborhoods. The
struggles of the housing, even if they know the ups and downs, remain at a fairly higher
than many other fronts of struggle. Moreover, the economic crisis generated and maintained
by capitalism will, in all likelihood, increase housing difficulties and therefore the
intensity of the struggle on this front. ---- Housing, a fundamental good in danger ----
The park office is insufficient today, 1.2 million households waiting for social housing
in France. Housing available at a reasonable price are often far from workplaces, poorly
served by public transport and lack of public or collective services. The owners allow
themselves increasingly delusional requirements for documents to provide, guarantees and
rent on the pretext of being victims of bad payers.
The state leaves do to protect speculators, friends of power. Thousands of square meters
remain unoccupied to keep prices artificially high. Worse, it violates its own laws. Thus,
the Opposable Right to Housing (DALO) is still not implemented: once recognized priority
beneficiaries waiting for housing for very long. The authorities refuse to requisition
empty slots.
Speculators are building fortunes on the backs of poor housing and tenants forced to
devote an ever higher their income on housing (11% in 1960 to 27% in 2010, according to
INSEE). 20% of households spend more modest housing a portion of their income twice as
high as the 20% richest. Even homeowners who purchase a principal residence for living and
not for speculation are squeezed by financial institutions that require interest rates too
high.
Too often, social housing is built on minimum technical standards, source of excessive
consumption in terms of energy and fluids. This has a significant impact on the budgets of
occupants and occupants, but also in environmental terms.
Libertarian alternative claims ...
The accommodation must be recognized as a fundamental right and the means must be
implemented so that this right is respected.
On the front of the housing as the other social fronts, Alternative libertarian
articulates a share of immediate and urgent claims and secondly a social project
articulating long-term claims.
The urgency is: Blocking rents: rents blocking can quickly undermine the speculation on
housing and takes the rate of profit that the owners hope to get. requisitioning of empty
homes and public control of land (including expropriation): it is at the same time to meet
a specific need immediate classes, and to take ownership speculative. The struggles of the
housing allow concrete object property use and property speculation. A punitive tax on
unoccupied square meters, whether commercial or housing, and unused land. In fact, many
homeowners prefer to pay the tax on empty homes rather than lower rents in order to
maintain the speculation. Actual implementation of the SRU law (Law on solidarity and
urban renewal), which defines the rate housing in the cities, accompanied by a very
significant increase penalties for municipalities that do not apply. This claim can
increase the supply of housing. It also allows management to move towards a public housing
premise in a social service housing. Municipal executives, especially mayors, who do not
meet the level of social housing should be revoked and rendered ineligible. implementation
of a policy for new buildings but also the renovation of environmental standards concerned
minimize environmental impacts and energy as well as reduce the economic cost of occupancy.
But the real solution to the housing crisis is the socialization of housing, that is to
say, the implementation of Communism, self-management and direct democracy within the
housing and therefore: Putting implementation of socialized housing service, funded by
rents, the owners (depending on the floor area per person) and businesses (depending on
the surface area), and the expropriation of speculators in favor of socialized housing
service. This claim is clearly not in the context of project libertarian communist
society, since it is assumed that private owners. Nevertheless, it is a concrete step and
identifiable before the introduction of a generalized social housing, managing all
resources and housing need. This service will also support socialized land management for
the benefit of the community, instead of private interests. Allow access to housing for
everyone is only a first step. Today, Libertarian Alternative is part of a dynamic
collective struggle for the establishment of socialized public services allowing you all
access to basic needs such as energy, heat, water ... This access Universal include the
provision of a free share of these services unit corresponding to that group of people
define as "normal", given the capacity to provide social and ecological balance. 's
limitation rents to 20% maximum income. The notion of "wealth produced" can easily replace
that income. It must be said that housing is a public good, it has a cost in terms of
wealth produced. Housing can not be free: construction, maintenance, improvement require a
portion of the wealth produced collectively. But housing is also a key asset, which should
be accessible to everyone and evenly distributed. The prohibition to buy a home if it is
to live. ownership and use need to be contrasted property and lucrative speculation. Have
housing and be able to adapt to the taste and needs nothing scandalous: it is the property
use. But derive income housing, or have multiple homes in order to speculate, it's
capitalism. We refuse and fight any commodification of housing.
Reinvest the front of the housing
The most accurate claims have no chance of success without fighting organization for wear,
popularize and implement effectively. Many organizations operate on the front of the
housing, and are mainly three types of steps: The charity (or charities from the world),
whose objective is to address the urgent "humanitarian" without addressing a priori causes
of bad housing (capitalism, speculation ...) Squats, which do not fit in a logic of
obtaining new collective rights organizations struggle and social transformation on the
front of the housing, which demanding new rights for all and all for housing, and often
use the squat to correct deficiencies emergency shelter and housing, and denounce the
capitalist mess multiplication of empty buildings. These can enroll in time and provide a
fulcrum for major struggles. For example, the CREA and the campaign "Zero street children"
in Toulouse. They are often the target of repression.
In the latter category, an organization stands: Right to Housing (DAL). In fact, it has a
wide geographical location, with groups all over France. It has a recognition of both
media and public. It promotes self-organization of ill-housed, and are homeless. It
implements direct actions requisition. But it does not only defends a conception of the
struggle of charitable housing (that is to say focused exclusively on the immediate
resettlement of ill-housed es), it articulates with a claim to new rights for all and all
(but not be limited to institutional actions, unlike other organizations).
Right to housing occupies a special place in the landscape of social housing struggles.
Obviously, there may be places where this organization is less interesting than it is
nationally. However, it remains a place of organization on the issue.
Libertarian alternative must not neglect its own expression and its intervention as a
political organization, the front housing.
But, as on other fronts of struggle, activists working Libertarian Alternative development
of mass organizations, pluralistic (not extensions, screens or transmission belts
particular organization). To do this, organizations of social transformation should be
preferred as strategic line of action on this front of struggle.
Posted January 30, 2013 by commission congress
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