Interview with Ion Marcel (fragments) A debt incurred years ago makes you uncomfortable and clouds your judgment. And as a bitter statement: any wrong steps where money is concerned snowballs into something as disastrous as losing your home. I was born on November 22nd, 1971, in Bucharest. My father was a local, my mother was from Sibiu, I’m half-Transylvanian. Since 2001 I’ve been working as a teacher, because the factories where I used to work… the factories are closed or demolished and abandoned or turned into new blocks or flats. SC Danubiana was the first factory I ever worked in,…
In the spring of 2013, political scientist Vladimir Bortun conducted several interviews with clients of banks which gave out mortgage loans. The clients talk about their relationship with the banks, about the banks’ unilateral decisions and abusive clauses. How did your relationship with BCR begin? Well, I decided to stop paying rent and move with the family, we couldn’t fit in a one-bedroom flat anymore. And we thought we’d take out a loan. What year was this? Late 2007, early 2008. I went to several banks, I asked for several offers, and in the end I thought BCR gave me…
Interview with IULIA MERSOIU Iulia Mersoiu is my mother, she is 62 and more than 40 of them were spent working as a surgery and internal medicine nurse at the Prahova County Hospital in Ploiesti. She was assigned to work in Ploiesti in 1974 and rented a flat until she contracted a housing mortgage in 1978. First of all, please tell me when and how did you come to Ploiesti? I did my nursing studies in Ploiesti between 1972 and 1974, coming from Ramnicu Sarat, Buzau County. I was assigned by the state to work in the city after nursing…