On Wednesday he also woke up surrounded by police in Argumosa Street, in the Madrid neighbourhood of lavapiés. This is the fourth attempt to evict Miriam and his family, and finally the neighbors have not managed to avoid eviction of the family home. As in this fourth attempt it was expected that eviction would take place, Miriam has left his children, 8 and 9 years old, in the house of a family member.

The Union of Rentists of Madrid and Lavapiés, where are you going? Called by the platform, from 08:00 hours a large number of people have been registered in number 11 of Argumosa Street. The platforms have spread the presence of more than 100 police officers on their networks and denounced the "disproportionate" police operation: “100 policemen and a secluded neighborhood. All to leave on the street a family with young children. Today in Argumosa 11, but every day anywhere. This is how the Spanish State complies with the Constitution and the UN resolutions,” they have stated.

Offensive by construction companies

Since last September several families have been evicted in the Argumosa 11 building. After tripling the rents, as most neighbors could not afford them, eviction orders began to arrive, which have been evicted one by one. Several families have managed to survive, but they have little to do against construction companies. The two families of the building, referred to this Tuesday, have reached an interim solution, according to the newspaper El Periódico. Last September, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights succeeded in paralysing the eviction of Pepi, a neighbour of the same building, until a dignified alternative was found.

General problem of the Lavapiés district

At present, Lavapies is the Madrid district that attracts more companies and investors. The gentrification of the neighborhood is fast, according to the documentary made by the digital medium Without Filters. Before Lavapiés, the same thing happened in the neighborhood of Malasaña. In degraded and unstable neighborhoods, companies invest heavily and forcibly drive out the inhabitants of the most miserable area to make way for a population of a higher economic level. Malasaña is now a fully modern neighborhood, and the cost of living has skyrocketed. According to the experts, Lavapiés goes in the same direction: a neighborhood that hitherto had a great deal of drug trafficking and that housed the most precarious layers of the working class, is being totally transformed into a partnership between the public and the private sector.