“A fall edge, dear, has given me good days out of our window.” This is what Gorka Urbizu says in his new work, Hasi bat kantuan. “My mother told me we are going to eat in the lounge to put two dishes.” In fact, Urbizu confesses to the journalist Uxue Rey that he has written in that song somewhere he has not written so far, in an interview in Berria, in which he asks where he has written the letters. That song stands out: “I think my old style is noticeable. Instead, I see a House, and there I see something else.” Warm, warm, simple, but special describes Urbizu what happens in that house. It can also happen in any other home, if there's a house, of course.
More and more “skis” here: housing, food, electricity...
As the latest work by Gorka Urbizu shows, Etxe bat is part of Hasi bat. Both on the disk and in life. It is an essential means of developing the vital project. But it cannot start if more than half of the salary is spent on paying rent or mortgage. Or if you are condemned to leave your country for vulture funds for luxury homes or for the massification of tourist houses. In short, as the mayor of San Sebastian said, “skiing” is today wanting to live in his neighborhood (San Sebastian is the most expensive city in the state, costs 5,326 euros a square meter, is 3.6% more expensive than last year). The average of the other countries of Hego Euskal Herria is also alarming, and the situation of Ipar Euskal Herria is no less. The photo is similar for rent. They're building baby vultures thinking they're building housing, and maybe we're left with a nice Basque for postcards, but for the Basques there are no livable postcards. More and more “skis” here: housing, food, electricity... The equation is something like this: citizens are poorer, more “evasive” and rich people are richer.
Subsidized programmes such as Gaztelagun or Emanzipa contribute, but if the contribution is not taken to solve the problem, the contribution is invaluable. We must reverse the logic of the free market and invest in public housing, establish courageous public policies if we want to work and live in the Basque Country (at least to work with dignity and live with dignity). And so, maybe “a house” is the affirmation that a beginning starts, rather than the unanswered question.
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