2023-08-19 08:12:54
They are 22 women, formerly homeless and presenting at least one of the following three difficulties: addictions, mental handicap, physical handicap. Precarious profiles who have no chance of accessing conventional housing but for whom an association has set up a new project.
Since 2021, Sorocity occupies dilapidated social housing in Evere, very close to the Brussels cemetery. The occupants pay only €120 rent per month. “If these dwellings were not considered dilapidated, we could not occupy them”, explains Nola, the coordinator of Sorocité.
The idea is to first provide a safe place for these women so that they can then reintegrate into society. Housing, first. Social reintegration, then. Sorocité collaborates with field associations to select and support the occupants.
The establishment of Sorocité was strewn with pitfalls, mainly because of the very precarious profile of the occupants but also of the neighborhood: the occupants share the neighborhood with the historical inhabitants, beneficiaries of social housing. “The little grannies didn’t see us very favorably at first. The word homelessness is scary. We had pranks. We have really come a long way”.
Vews spent a day with the occupants of Sorocity and the inhabitants of the neighborhood.
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