The different social and political organizations that make up the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) will mobilize this Wednesday to the National Congress demanding the approval of a reform of the national law of social-urban integration of popular neighborhoodswhich is currently being analyzed by the lower house, to extend the evictions for 10 years and allow different communities to be incorporated into the registry that currently exists.
This is the initiative that last September 18 managed to gather the necessary political consensus for the issuance of a majority opinion in a plenary session of the Constitutional Affairs, Budget and General Legislation commissions.
Militants of the Evita Movementof the Classist and Combative Current (CCC)of Darío Santillán Popular Front (FPDS) and of We are neighborhoods standing movementare concentrated from noon in front of the National Congress, spokespersons of the organizations informed Télam.
“Today we are mobilizing Congress to demand the reform of the National Law of Popular Neighborhoods that allows 5,687 popular neighborhoods to be incorporated into the Renabap registry (National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods), stop evictions for 10 years and ensure that urban integration works continue. coming to our neighborhoods hand in hand with the cooperatives”, explained the organizers.
Maryluz Mendoza, representative of the National Board of Popular Neighborhoods, said through a press release: “The approval of this reform by legislators is urgent, to guarantee the right to land and housing to 1,200 ,000 families in need. We will fight for this measure that is on the way to our flags of Tierra Techo y Trabajo” (TTT).
Regarding the legislative initiative, he remarked: “This national law on popular neighborhoods is fundamental: it is about works that can change the life of a family, about something as basic as guaranteeing drinking water in a neighborhood and guaranteeing that no one lives afraid of being evicted for living in a popular neighborhood”.
The norm on socio-urban integration of popular neighborhoods was approved in 2018 and set a deadline until next October 15 to stop evictions, with which the organizations’ claim has to do with the urgent approval of the extension.
The opinion was supported by the Front of All, Together for Change, the Federal Interblock, and United Provinces.
The initiative of the Executive Power, which began to be debated two weeks ago, proposes to expand the scope of the law passed in 2018 (declaring the public utility of 1,176 new neighborhoods), extend the suspension of evictions for ten years (as a guarantee of implementation of the law and the right to housing), and streamline administrative processes.
