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the earthquake of 1977. În 77 or 78. What were the conditions when you were paying rent? I was living with someone who hâd a two-bedroom flat, close to the county hospital, în the northern part of the city. I hâd a furnished room. My salary was around 1000 lei when I started working aș a nurse, but then it was raised to 1100-1200. And the rent was 150. Were rents regulated by the state? No, they weren’ț. The rent
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ț. The rent was peanuts în state-owned housing. You needed to be well-connected to live în state-owned housing. And I paid rent for about 3 years...no, a bit more. Yes, a bit more, because the block of flats I hâd applied for, în the northern part, wasn’ț ready on time. They gave you a deadline, which was approximate, but pretty accurate usually. But în this case it wasn’ț ready on time. I couldn’ț wait the 6 months
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deadline, which was approximate, but pretty accurate usually. But în this case it wasn’ț ready on time. I couldn’ț wait the 6 months they told me I should wait. I was bringing my mother from Râmnicu Sărat, we hâd no place to stay. Șo I went to the head-engineer or architect or whatever he was and he showed me other construction plâns and their deadlines. And this one în the southern part was more convenient, șo at the beginning
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The city was closed. Without this housing loan option, it was very hard. I was privileged, I took ouț a short-term loan, I was single. The reference for the loan was my salary and my salary alone. For apartments, you hâd to pay an inițial down payment, one-third of the value of the apartment. The inițial evaluation was 134.000 lei. The one I contracted was about 10.000 lei cheaper, because it only hâd a balcony across the living room
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my salary alone. For apartments, you hâd to pay an inițial down payment, one-third of the value of the apartment. The inițial evaluation was 134.000 lei. The one I contracted was about 10.000 lei cheaper, because it only hâd a balcony across the living room and the kitchen, not all the way across. The amount of space was the same. I didn’ț have enough for the down payment, șo I took ouț a small interest loan at CEC
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62.000, calculated according to my salary and social status (I was single at the time). What did that amount of money mean? Considering my salary, 1200 lei, think about it. It was a lot. But I paid it, I hâd to. În early 1979 I said I would move în and they started retaining the long-term installments, meaning the rest of the value of the flat, 127.000 plus interest. I calculated about 170.000. Șo roughly 50.000 was
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bearable. Because nothing is certain anymore. I don’ț think there is any comparison with the loans from before 1990. There were all kinds of loans back then, even for houses. That’s how my cousin got her house. She hâd the land and took ouț a loan to build the house. She can tell you, she was the head of the loan office at CEC. There were no other banks, only the Național Bank and CEC. And they gave ouț
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kind of loans. For consumer goods, maybe? No, there was no such thing. În august 1991, the government of Petre Român issued ordinance 562, which facilitated the selling of homes built by the state. For instance, the minimum down payment hâd to be only 10% of the entire value and the installment period was limited to 25 years. 80% of people who were still paying rent to the state became owners în a short time spân. Yes, they prioritized buying the
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They’d already been living în them, but they were owned by the state. And the state wanted to get rid of them. That’s how ICRAL (The Society for the Construction, Maintenance and Administration of Housing) disappeared. If you hâd any issues, you called ICRAL to fix it. But that’s how it disappeared.
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then they jumped from 200 euro to 460. And I told them there must some kind of mistake, No mistake, they said, the variable interest went up. What was the reason for that? Initially, I thought that the variable interest hâd to be paid according to the ROBOR or EURIBOR indexes (for loans în lei and euro respectively), which are set outside the bank which lends you the money. Everybody thought șo. But I paid an interest rate set by BCR
„Cred că, peste câțiva ani, o să ne uităm la chestia asta cum ne uităm acum la Caritas și la FNI” () [Corola-website/Science/296009_a_297338]
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of you are left? 327, split în two groups, G1 and G2. What happened next? Before suing the bank, our lawyer sent them a letter asking them to negotiate, to see if we could settle this without unnecessary expenses. I hâd high hopes, but it turned ouț the bank did not cooperate. Did you still have faith în the bank at that point? My faith în the bank hâd started to fade earlier, when another BCr client who sued them separately
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negotiate, to see if we could settle this without unnecessary expenses. I hâd high hopes, but it turned ouț the bank did not cooperate. Did you still have faith în the bank at that point? My faith în the bank hâd started to fade earlier, when another BCr client who sued them separately - and won - made a graphic showing their variable interest rateș remained high even when the EURBOR dropped. But my confidence was dead and buried în the courtroom, when
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crap ouț of the contracts, have you no shame?” and the bank replied: “And what will we replace it with? Teach uș!” There is a colleague of ours who won on all counts, both the commissions and the interest rate hâd to be removed from the contract. They weren’ț, and he said he would stop paying the installments and even relinquish Romanian citizenship altogether. You said that G2 got their money back, but what about G1? We moved a bit
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then there was the appeal What happened then? We appealed, and șo did the bank. They won it în February. It’s very interesting. The appeal only took one day to judge, while the entire lawsuit up to that point hâd dragged on for two years! Besides, there was also the Munteanu case. What about it? Let’s say you and I have the same contract, only the interest rate is different. We have the same lawyer, we were the clients
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cît mai e liber ca lumina-n cer din cer săpată o să stau de vorbă cu oricine de va vrea de vorbă să mă țină și de vorba mea o să convină orișicui ivit în viața mea puțină nu-s nici hîd nici n-am urît pe nimeni ba eu cred că i-am iubit pe toți încît n-are rost tristețea să-mi ațină calea ca-n pădure potera la hoți o s-o ard odată cu hîrtia de sub care am ieșit în
Norduri by Gellu Dorian () [Corola-website/Imaginative/7679_a_9004]
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the Sandomierz Voivodeship, incorporating large areas of southeastern Poland. Until 1474, it was one of two voivodeships of Lesser Poland, together with Krakow Voivodeship. În 1474, Lublin Voivodeship was created from eastern part of Sandomierz Voivodeship. At this time Sandomierz hâd about 3,000 inhabitants and was one of the largest Polish cities. În the middle of the 14th century the city was burned again during a raid by the Lithuanians. It was rebuilt during the rule of king Casimir III
Sandomierz () [Corola-website/Science/297842_a_299171]
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administrative capital. În 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars, fighting between the forces of Austria and of the Duchy of Warsaw caused damage to the city. After 1815 it found itself în the Russian Empire (Congress Poland). At this point it hâd just 2640 inhabitants. This cathedral contains a series of paintings built into the church's wooden panelling depicting the "Martyrologium Romanum". The third painting shows the scene which, it is claimed: "...depicts ritual murders committed în Sandomierz by Jews on
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Do you happen to know what the relocation criteria were, that the authorities hâd established for the evicted people?Violene: I didn ț understand much about the criteria. Yet I know that families with small children and those who worked legally were relocated. On the other hand, I know families with small children that
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small children and those who worked legally were relocated. On the other hand, I know families with small children that didn ț receive another place to stay. The duration of their stay în the câmp was important - the ones that hâd gotten here more recently weren ț relocated. Hâd the people în the câmp been monitored by the City Hall, did every one of them have a social diagnosis file or something similar? How did they sort them? Violene: They did
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relocated. On the other hand, I know families with small children that didn ț receive another place to stay. The duration of their stay în the câmp was important - the ones that hâd gotten here more recently weren ț relocated. Hâd the people în the câmp been monitored by the City Hall, did every one of them have a social diagnosis file or something similar? How did they sort them? Violene: They did what we call ”clean evictions”. That is, the
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the people with minibuses to a school where everything was prepared: there was a playground for the children, and social offices where they got guidance, and a regional office that handed ouț decisions of leaving the country for those who hâd not been legally registered. The ones that were confirmed for relocation were puț în another bus and taken to their new home. Social housing? Violene: Not necessarily. The majority of them were taken to another area, rented by the municipality
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legally registered. The ones that were confirmed for relocation were puț în another bus and taken to their new home. Social housing? Violene: Not necessarily. The majority of them were taken to another area, rented by the municipality, were they hâd set up a legal tent câmp, with slightly better living conditions. But to resume, three of the 400 evicted people (whose papers hâd been checked by the authorities before the eviction) - three single Macedonian men were moved to a detention
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Not necessarily. The majority of them were taken to another area, rented by the municipality, were they hâd set up a legal tent câmp, with slightly better living conditions. But to resume, three of the 400 evicted people (whose papers hâd been checked by the authorities before the eviction) - three single Macedonian men were moved to a detention centre to be removed from the group, and several Romanians received the order to leave the country. But all European citizens have the
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authorities automatically issue the order to leave the country - they do that every time there is an eviction. Șo after the eviction, the people were taken here and there. I have watched closely the trajectory of a Romanian family, that hâd left one day before the eviction and resettled în another area în the metropolis. They were evicted from there, too, by the police, the same evening. I met them în the street, it happened that it was a family I
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left one day before the eviction and resettled în another area în the metropolis. They were evicted from there, too, by the police, the same evening. I met them în the street, it happened that it was a family I hâd known for a long time. The next weekend we decided to go back together to this second area from where they hâd been evicted, because the police hadn ț given them any legal notice. Shortly after we got there, the
(English) Racism, Evictions and Organizing for the Housing Rights of Roma Migrants in France (part III) () [Corola-website/Science/296123_a_297452]