Beja: Camera will assess the situation of the Quarries Neighborhood
The Chamber of Beja and the Equality State Secretaries and Housing yesterday visited the district of Quarries. The problems experienced by the families of Roma who inhabit that space were the subject.
Designed to receive 250 people, currently living in the neighborhood around 500. In 40 tents distributed in space, inhabit other 200.
Rosa Monteiro, Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality stated that "problems remain for decades" have no "quick fixes". He ensured that the executive government has ongoing interventions targeting the Roma communities.
Ana Pinho, Secretary of State for Housing, He argued that the government approved strategic guidelines of the "new generation of housing policies". In the document are poured solutions to problems like those who are experienced in the Quarries Quarter. The minister claims that are necessary "integrated responses".
Turn, Paul Arsenio, President of Beja House, He believes it would be "irresponsible" by the municipality indicate a time limit for resolution of the problems experienced. "What the municipality of Beja will start to do right away is the diagnosis of the situation", said the mayor.
“The Chamber wants to know who lives in the home, the number of households in the Neighborhood, who passed housing and who is installed in precarious situations in tents”, Arsenic situation Paul considers "a difficult task" that requires the involvement of partners and Government. “You can only find solutions in the medium term ", summed up.
recurring situation in the Quarries Quarter, is the presence of EDP technical, agents together with the PSP, to restore legality in providing light to some houses that agglomeration.
The existence of illegal downloaded, made from other dwellings, no contract for the supply of electricity, leads to the EDP technicians have to make the cut links, to restore "power order" in the neighborhood.
Other cases have to do with the payment of rent to the local authority and the water to the EMAS, which often have been renegotiated, but, return unless paid.
The neighborhood of the Quarries is a development of the Municipality of Beja, where they were invested 1,25 million, having been started to build in January 2005 and one year later, He received fifty Roma families. The infrastructure was initially made up of villas in masonry, de tipologia T2, living room / kitchen with fireplace, bathroom and two bedrooms.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
