Press articles about the Community of Squatted Prosfygika
Athens: new threats on Prosfygika
During the summer of 2025, secretly, the Region of Attica, through a programmatic agreement, initiated the planning for the repression and eviction of the Community of the Squatted on Alexandras Avenue.
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The autonomous Community of the Occupied Prosfygika under threat by the Greek state
The Community of the Occupied Prosfygika is one of the most emblematic examples of an autonomous urban housing community in Greece and Europe. Read more about their history HERE. Today, it is once again facing the threat of the State.
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WE WILL WIN, OR WE WILL WIN
The Attica Region’s program for the redevelopment and “return to society” of 108 of the 228 apartments in the Prosfigika buildings on Alexandras Avenue, an urban complex built in the 1930s, does not do justice to the example set by the community that began to develop around 2011 and is breathing new life into what was once an abandoned area.
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Fears Grow for Vulnerable Residents of Iconic Athens Squat
At 165-169 Alexandra Avenue, Athens, a large black sheet hangs from the façade of a dilapidated apartment block. On it, in white paint, is written in Greek: ‘Hunger strike to death in defence of life. Hands off the Prosfygika.’ The Prosfygika dates to the 1930s, when it was built to house Greek refugees from Asia Minor, evolving into a self-organised community of squatters and the socially vulnerable.
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