Transcript · Spanish → English

Elderly Woman Fights Eviction Battle

Mari Carmen's gaze, eyes that have been waking up in this

house for 71 years.

Which is my home. It's my home, it's my life, it's my memories,

my dad and mom died here, and it's where I expected to spend the rest

of my days.

And it is also the gaze...

When I received the eviction notice,

I was in shock.

Of a woman who won't give up.

I reacted,

and then I thought we have to keep moving forward, we have to fight.

I'm not going to leave my home easily.

Despite the fact that today is the fourth eviction attempt.

In 2018, the company that became the owner

of the building

tried to raise her rent by 275 percent.

She was paying her father's old rent

of 480

euros.

An increase of 2,650, which was the going rent, but

Giving me a discount somehow, they could let me have it for one thousand

six hundred and fifty.

But with her pension of just over one thousand four hundred, no,

the numbers don't add up.

To flee

our neighborhoods.

We have seen her take to the streets every time she has faced eviction.

Mari Carmen, you're not alone.

Surrounded by neighbors who don't want her to leave.

Once again, the neighborhood chants and she raises her voice.

I've lived here for seventy-one years, and I don't want to leave.

What's clear is that these people will do anything for money.

Without furniture or bedrooms.

And at 87, she has to deal with that anguish,

with the uncertainty of not knowing whether tomorrow she'll be able to return

to have breakfast at home.

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Original transcript (Spanish)

La de Mari Carmen, unos ojos que llevan despertándose en esta casa setenta y un años. Que es mi casa. Es mi casa, es mi vida, son mis recuerdos, aquí han muerto mi papá y mi mamá, y era donde yo esperaba llegar al final de mis días.

Y también es la mirada... Cuando recibí el desahucio, me quedé en shock De una mujer que no se rinde Reaccioné

y entonces lo que pensé es que hay que seguir pa' adelante, hay que luchar. Yo no me voy a ir fácilmente de mi casa. A pesar de que hoy es el cuarto intento de desahucio. En 2018, la empresa que se convirtió en propietaria del edificio

trató de aumentar su alquiler un doscientos setenta y cinco por ciento. Ella pagaba la renta antigua de su padre de cuatrocientos ochenta euros. Una subida de dos mil seiscientos cincuenta, que era los alquileres, pero

haciéndome un beneplácito precio de alguna manera, me lo dejaban en mil seiscientos cincuenta. Pero con su pensión de poco más de mil cuatrocientos, no, no salen las cuentas. De la huir

de nuestros barrios. La hemos visto salir a la calle cada vez que se ha enfrentado al desahucio. Mari Carmen, no estás sola. Rodeada de sus vecinos que no quieren que se vaya. De nuevo el barrio vuelve a gritar y ella a alzar su voz.

Yo he vivido aquí setenta y un años y yo no me quiero ir. Lo que está claro es que esta gente por dinero hace lo que sea. Sin muebles y sin alcobas. Y con esa angustia tiene que lidiar a sus ochenta y siete años, con la incertidumbre de no saber si podrá mañana volver a

desayunar en su casa.

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