Flat owners and lessors or bedrooms In Majorca they ask tenants HE Payment up to 500 Euro with Register at home. This is totally abusive and illegal practice, condemned by the Metges del Món organizations, caritas and Red Crescent, that they find more cases of this type every day.
teresa rieraResponsible for the Cáritas Housing program, one of the main problems is “because lack of access, rooms are for rent. Since the prices are so high, what the person who rents the apartment does is to rent the rooms second hand to be able to pay the rent,” he elaborates. “The lease agreement usually states that the flat cannot be rented. In other words, when the tenant rents out a room, they do not register the person who entered the live, so that the landlord does not realize that he is doing this. It is a fish that bites its own tail.
Living in a rented room
Your biggest problem from Cáritas registration is made by persons in the situation described above, that is, residing in a room. “Given the fact that they can’t register, there are people who take advantage of it and what they do is sell the record. There are cases of tenants They came to pay 300, 350 or even 500 euros.“. Another practice reported by users of these three social entities is that when they rent a room, their landlord 50 or 100 euros rent Monthly if they want a registered room.
These NGOs warn that these abuses are increasing and worsening rapidly. “This happens in Palma and in towns too. So we want to make registrations more flexible, especially in town halls outside Palma. Registration is a very important process because gateway to other essential services such as health cardbus card or education children’s. “If you don’t register, you will miss out on these essential services,” Riera said.
Request a visit from an inspector
“It’s easier to record someone who’s on the street right now than it is to record someone who’s in a house or room,” he accuses. “The only possibility that users living in rooms usually have is, request that an inspector go to your home to prove that you reside there. The thing is, they take a long time. Users also fear that if the owner or landlord finds out they’re registering there without their permission, they’ll be kicked out.”
As for the profile of people who find themselves in this situation, “previously it was mostly immigrants, now it’s everything.”
“With the record, there are a number of people who do. work with fear and insecurity stresses”, particularly of vulnerable migrants in an irregular situation Regional Coordinator Juana Lozano, Red Cross. “We see that they would rather give up their registration rights than not have rooms,” he says. “It’s important to know that Palma is one of the state capitals where people living in subcontracted rooms and other cases have also been recorded,” he says. “However these recordsYou do not have to make any payment to the lessor for this, held back by ignorance and fear“. Lozano recalls that the landlords could not charge a fee for the padrón, breaking the law. “What happened is that, there is a lack of legal tools to prosecute these practices because it’s a new phenomenon”.
suicidal behaviors
For Amanda Gutiérrez, Coordinator for Severe Exclusion, Migration and the Right to Health Metges del Món said, “One of the municipalities that put more barriers to this type of registration is the municipality of Inca. Palma tries to comply with the law, but when it comes to a person living on the street, for example, it has to. So they say no when they go alone for the census through Creu Roja’s UMES. we detected”. People who live in a room and want to register automatically register if an inspector does not come to their house after three months. “what if three months in uncertainty and they are deprived of their rights. We asked the regional government. do something along these lines“. Gutiérrez points to another condition that is “quite common.” people living at the same address as someone collecting Minimum Vital Income and that is the owner or the lessor. They refuse their registration because they say they may lose the aid.We tried to mediate with the landlords in such matters, but we were always unsuccessful. And people living in such conditions do not dare to report it because the first thing they look for is a safe place, and they are often with minors.” Finally, the coordinator warns: very helpless users and cases of suicidal behavior due to housing problem. “We have two health psychologists for the prostitution project, and people with this psychological profile come to them and they take care of them,” he concludes.