Tenant groups warned of a growth in rent suspensions and judicial evictions because the impact on the pocketbook is the highest in history. In that sense, they warned that this situation could be the beginning of a profound housing crisis and social.
Through a statement published this Monday, the 16 organizations of the National Tenants Federation They expressed their concern about the lack of state policies that fully guarantee the payment of rent for renting a home.
“Freedom of contract is actually a business freedom that chains us to allocate half – or more – of our household income just to pay rent. We work half the month for the rentier“they claimed.
As stated in the statement, “Argentina tripled the number of tenant families in the last three decades while The impact of rent on the pocket of the worker who rents is the highest in history“.
In this framework, the entities deepened, “many families, couples or single people, who can no longer afford quarterly increases tied to inflation, are desperately seeking a room in shared private homeyoung people who have somewhere to return do so parents’ house or family members, and others simply they remain in the street made invisible”.
It is worth remembering that as of January 1, 2024, the rental law that implied three-year contracts, updated annually using the ICL (an index that combines the evolution of inflation with that of salaries), was repealed. From there, according to the tenants, “Housing rental contracts were subject to the interest and will of the real estate companies and the rentiers. by Decree 70/2023″.
“The consequences of DNU 70 of the Government of Javier Milei, is a setback of 100 years, when working families lived overcrowded and could not exercise any rights, only deliver their workforce and pay the rent. In the name of the perverse and cynical’ agreement between parties’, from Ushuaia to La Quiaca three million tenant households are suffering the greatest extraction of income in memory and the consequences are dramatic. The Government has nationalized looting without any law or protection“they stressed from the Federation.
“There is not a single community organization that is unaware of what is happening, because tenants are the majority of those who work and those who study. The immediate future is obvious: suspension of payments begins to proliferate, judicial evictions grow. We are entering a housing crisis that will inevitably lead to a social crisis“, they concluded.
Source: Ambito
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