Waiting for the new clinic, headlines Pedro Luna, who recounts the long wait in Florida de l’Hospitalet to improve primary care; The census, some have it and others don’t, is headed by Norma Véliz, who explains the journey to get the key in the form of paper that opens the door to basic rights; Florida is planted, start Santi Carulla and Cristina Extremera, who describe the mobilizations to have more green spaces in one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Europe. They are texts from Des de ja magazine.
Promoted by LaFundició and edited with care, in its pages the residents themselves testify to the daily problems of the enclave. And also its cultural vitality, which is diverse and rich: in less than half a square kilometer you can find some thirty nationalities. Maybe more.
In 2017, the City Council of the second largest city in Catalonia created the Pla Integral Les Planes-Blocs Florida. Cooked on a slow fire and with the horizon in 2030, the plan aims to dignify a neighborhood where poverty is the order of the day.
“The mayoress, Núria Marín, is aware that the city is indebted to Florida,” said an editorial in La Vanguardia the same day the newspaper devoted two pages to reporting on the idea.
Although it is true that valuable initiatives have been promoted, after a particularly harsh pandemic in this neighborhood and the subsequent crises that have hit the weakest especially, it cannot be concluded that this debt has been settled for the moment.
At the end of last year, the Consistory and the Department of the Interior applied a police reinforcement to fight against insecurity. In the presentation, Marín said that it was “the time for the City Council to become more intense” in the plan.
That is as certain as that without the help of other administrations the objectives will not be achieved. The new neighborhood law of the Generalitat must be deployed. It is imperative to allocate resources. Since when?, from now on.
