In 2019, citizens took to the streets to protest what was happening in the Astir area.

One of the protesters, tense, said that the citizens had been betrayed by Edi Rama, after he had promised them that the apartments would not be demolished. The citizen has used harsh language while stating that even though he is a person with leftist beliefs, the evil of the Albanian left is precisely the leader of the Socialist Party.

"We paid taxes but that son of a bitch lied to us, he told us 'even if Enver Hoxha were to rise from the grave, they wouldn't destroy the house'. You ate this people, you! Do you think about this people that you have brought to the point of economic and moral distress. Do you have a shred of patriotism, you Edi Rama, do you have some kind of soul? You will be worried about this people, I am a leftist but this is a charade of the Albanian left", the citizen expressed at the time.