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| The illegal 'squatting' of homes is a situation that especially affects Lorca neighborhoods such as Los Angeles or San Cristóbal | The Municipal Group of VOX in the City of Lorca will register next Monday a motion in which the Consistory is requested to adopt firm measures against illegal 'squatting'.

The councilor and spokesperson for GM VOX in Lorca, Carmen Menduiña, emphasizes that her formation has presented this motion "to fight against illegal occupations and guarantee the Constitutional right to private property.""We ask to toughen the law and facilitate the work of the Local Police to avoid the occupation of houses", said Menduiña, adding: "Also to start a census of illegally occupied houses and those empty that may be susceptible to be ".In addition, VOX proposes the immediate creation, by the City Council of Lorca, of a work table in order to study all the possibilities that can be carried out in the municipal sphere of competence, in order to establish the prevention and defense mechanisms of the residents affected by the illegal 'squatting' of houses, since the owners of illegally occupied houses feel helpless due to the lack of response from the public administrations.Our objective, commented the councilor of VOX, "is for the Consistory to develop a comprehensive plan for the Protection of Coexistence and Neighborhood Safety where the illegal occupation of real estate is dealt with forcefully and once and for all and the return of real estate is facilitated to their rightful owners ".VOX hopes that these measures will stop the increase in illegal squats in the town and, above all, that the insecurity in Lorca neighborhoods such as Los Angeles or San Cristóbal will end.Fight the mafiasVOX Lorca denounces that authentic mafias have been created around the phenomenon of 'squatting'.

In some cases, they fraudulently rent squatted houses to tenants who are unaware of their irregular situation.

In others, they use those squatted homes as operations centers for other types of crimes such as theft, drug sales or prostitution."Faced with this serious situation, we demand that the Lorca City Council greater police presence in the areas where more illegal squats are registered, as well as facilitating the access of the Local Police to the cadastral census in order to speed up the verification of people registered in homes occupied ", concludes the mayor.Finally, from the party in Lorca, the City Council is also asked that social services act to provide access to social housing to squatters who really need it and guarantee their inclusion. 

Source: VOX Lorca