
reAKT – Aktion against Repression hielt auf der Demo zum Housing Action Day am 27.3.2021 diese Rede:
The necessity of a social housing plan in Greece and in Europe in general is crucial.
Given the difficulties of local communities to support housing rent during, but also before
the pandemic, we can all appreciate that a central housing plan without privatisation is a
positive change and a vision that could bring stability in many peoples‘ lives.
The issue of housing is not one that affects only those who have lost a home. It is an
issue which also affects those who never had a roof over their head to begin with, and
those whom the Greek State neglected and abandoned. Refugees who manage to
survive the perilousness of the Mediterranean sea, are placed in horrible camps with the
support of the EU. And with most of the dozens of self-organised refugee housing
projects in Greece now evicted, the flicker of hope once present amongst the vast
darkness of the EU’s institutional racism, now struggles to stay alight.
In Greece we notice the phenomenon of roofless and homeless people in large scales as
well as inadequate and insecure housing. The percentage is not clear, since there is also a
lack of recorded statistics to define the problem. During the economic crisis in Greece
this percentage raised significantly, without any national strategy to fight homelessness
and housing exclusion.








