A score of Born residents, forced to pay rent a month after being evicted

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Last May, about twenty people were evicted from their homes in the Born neighborhood of Barcelona due to the risk of collapse. The Barcelona Fire Department and the Guàrdia Urbana had to urgently evacuate the residents of the building, located on Sant Agustí Vell street, because of a water leak on the ground floor that had eroded the ground supporting one of the entrance walls of the building. The Catalan Socialist Housing Union assures that the leak occurred during a renovation, but the property, the investment fund New Amsterdam Developers, never repaired it correctly. Even so, neither the fund nor its real estate agency offered any alternative to the families when they had to leave their homes, who, despite not being able to access them, were obliged to pay rent. On the other hand, Barcelona City Council reports that for this property, the Ciutat Vella district has three ongoing cases for unlicensed works.