Press articles about the Community of Squatted Prosfygika
Prosfygika: defending an alternative world
“I am going on a hunger strike to the death, … as a means of … collective struggle aimed at preserving Prosfygika … as social housing and as a structure of solidarity for vulnerable social groups, as an organized community of struggle ...
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Prosfygika: The community that EU policy forgot to invent
In June 2025, the Region of Attica announced a plan to use European Regional Development Fund money to build social housing in central Athens. There was one problem: the site was already home to 400 people, organised as a self-governed community, running their own health clinic ...
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Prosfygika Community: The struggle has been won, the struggle continues
Following the decision of the Athens Municipality recognizing the Prosfygika Community and calling for the suspension of the urban redevelopment project, the hunger strike has ended ...
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Prosfygika hunger strikers continue 'strike to death'
A proposed state-run social housing program would still remain incompatible with the vision of the squatted community because their structures function independent of the state...
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Hunger striker nears 130 days in defence of Athens Prosfygika community
Aristotelis Chantzis has entered the 130th day of a hunger strike in defence of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in central Athens, as concerns continue to grow over plans to evict residents and redevelop the historic neighbourhood.
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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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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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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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Prosfygika under threat: “We need to escalate the struggle”
Interview with a resident of the historic Athens squat about its history, autonomous structures, the current threat of eviction, and the campaign to resist it ...
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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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