When a person reaches the retirement age, he hopes to stop working with a good retirement pension and lead a quiet life. However, the opposite happens to Pierre and Martine Marancourta French marriage that has to settle for live inside your Renault Scenic.
This couple of almost 70 years has been living in their vehicle in Canteleu (Normandy) for four months, After being evicted from social housing in which they lived. In a report for BFM Normandiemarriage teaches its new home: “This is where we live.”
When Pierre opens the front door, you can see a car completely full of belongings, with a hole only for the pilot and the co -pilot, where they have to “sleep sitting” accompanied by their cat when they do not find emergency accommodation.
“It is not easy. The kidneys hurt, everything hurts… It is difficult to sleep, sometimes you have to start the car to warm up “Martine laments, cane in hand. At the moment, the two pensioners depend on the social distributions of food to eat.
They are in judgments with the lessor
Several years ago they were evicted from their social home after refusing to pay the rent for a year and a half. Since then, they are in different judicial processes with his homemadeLogéal Immobilière. “Long before evicting a tenant, we offer support measures. The definitive eviction is only the last resort, ”the real estate company defends.
The situation of the couple, without the possibility of dealing with rent payments, is not an exceptional case. According to the director of the Departmental Information Agency on Housing, Karim Belhaj, the number of Evictions in rentals in France has experienced “a significant increase” In recent years.
In Spain, according to a report published by the General Council of the Judiciary, the evictions due to default of the rent were reduced 4.6% in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the same period of the previous year, until it is placed at 3,984 procedures. This represents 75.8% of the total cases of evictions for different reasons in the country.