Building Freeze Drives Families Underground
MK Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz (National Union) toured this past Tuesday the underground housing sites in Jerusalem in which young couples mostly live, due to the severe shortage of homes for younger people. The tour included the Bayit Vegan neighborhood as well as neighborhoods located in the northern part of the city.
MK Shama-Hacohen was invited to join Tuesday’s tour after Katz had heard him say during a meeting of the Finance Committee that there is no housing shortage in Jerusalem. Katz therefore asked Shama-Hacohen to accompany him on a tour of the underground parking lots in Jerusalem, just a five-minute drive from the Knesset, to see for himself the construction of the pirate “apartments” in warehouses and parking spaces. MK Moses was requested to lead the tour.
The three MKs visited sites in three Jerusalem neighborhoods and were shocked by what they saw. They witnessed no less than hundreds of families living under inhuman conditions and breathing the emissions from the exhausts of the vehicles, which come in through the only small window located in their apartment/storage room.
Lost in all of the propoganda: people need to live in houses and apartments.