Thousands march in Madrid to protest Spain’s housing crisis after eviction of 87-year-old woman
- Thousands of people marched through Madrid on September 26 to protest the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal and demand stronger tenant protections.
- Abascal was removed from her home after a real estate firm raised her rent by 275% to €2,650, according to the tenants’ union.
- The Spanish government is expected to consider the “Maricarmen decree,” which would renew rental contracts automatically and further restrict evictions.
- The Bank of Spain estimates that Spain is short of 700,000 homes, while analysts link rising rental demand to tourism and population growth.
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87-year-old’s eviction sparks encampment in Madrid plaza to protest housing crisis
Protesters outraged by the eviction of an 87-year-old woman spent the night camped in Madrid’s historic Puerta del Sol plaza, where more people — including multigenerational families — joined them Sunday.
The crisis in Spain's housing has taken on a spectacular turn, with protesters occupying a market in Madrid from Saturday evening to demand increased protection for tenants, after the evacuation, Wednesday, of an 80-year-old woman, an event that has stirred up emotion throughout the country, France Presse transmits. "We are all Maricarmen, "No other Maricarmen: ...
Madrid. Under the “Maricarmen, not one more”, in reference to the octogenarian Maricarmen Abascal, which had been its 70th home, years after being acquired by a vulture fund, tens of thousands of people traveled in the center of Madrid with shouts against the right-wing governments of the Community of Madrid and the city council, but also to demand that the Spanish government, presided over by the socialist Pedro Sánchez, take urgent measures to…
In response to his expulsion by the authorities, thousands of people marched to Madrid and camped in the Puerta del Sol Square.
Protesters have been occupying a square in Madrid since Saturday night to demand better housing conditions, after the expulsion of an octogenarian on Wednesday that has sparked the havoc throughout the countryThe housing crisis in Spain has taken a spectacular turn, with the occupation since Saturday night by protestors of a square in Madrid to demand better protections for tenants. "We are all Maricarmen", "More than one Maricarmen": on the Pue…
Some hundreds of people spent the last night camping in tents in the central Puerta del Sol in Madrid, at the end of the demonstration to protest against the eviction of Maricarmen, the invalid "87-year-old" removed from his home in the Retiro district after 71 years, became a symbol of the housing crisis in Spain, and demand approval in the next [...] L'articolo Hundreds of protesters camped in Puerta del Sol for the right to the house: the pro…
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