Kämpfe um Wohnraum in der Eurokrise (Action-Diritti / Solidarity for all / Plataforma de Afectados por la Hypoteca)

The Eurozone crisis has seen mortgage debt and rents becoming an ever more intense problem for the everyday reproduction of many people in Europe. Innumerable evictions increased the precarity of housing and everyday life and led to rising rates of mental stress and depression as well as suicides. Protection from evictions was at the same time - in the context of the austerity based European crisis management - under fierce attacks by the 'Troika' - the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund – and national governments. However, affected people, relying on self-organisation, in many cases were able to mount succesful resistance. Evictions were actively impeded by acts of civil desobedience, succesful mechanisms of collective counseling to give help and support in individual cases established or houses occupied. The workshop features presentations from activists from the platform of those affected by mortgage PAH (Spain), Solidarity4all (Greece) and Action - Diritti in Movimento (Italy) that analyse struggles against evictions and for housing in their respective countries and cities.