How the Eviction of 87-Year-Old Maricarmen Sparked a Nationwide Housing Protest in Spain
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The Madrid people have mobilized for tens of thousands, chanting slogans in favor of justice and waving keys in reference to the housing crisis in the Spanish city, after the Congress of Deputies rejected two decrees promoted by the Government with measures to alleviate the situation: the automatic renewal of rental contracts and restrictions on evictions. The latest wave of protests broke out after the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, a 87-year-…
What to know about Spain’s housing protests sparked by the eviction of the 87-year-old Maricarmen
By JOSEPH WILSON and ALICIA LEÓN MADRID, Spain (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of various cities in Spain on Saturday to demand help for renters, a day after lawmakers rejected a package of emergency measures aimed at tackling the nation’s housing affordability crisis. Large crowds marched in Madrid calling […]
The cause of the protests was the failure of a law to alleviate the housing crisis. The government had introduced the draft in response to the eviction of an 87-year-old
It was Maricarmen's eviction that activated the mobilizations in the street and pushed the government to seek solutions to the urgent housing problem, but the unrest had been accumulating for years. The surveys of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) are conclusive. Since December 2023 the housing occupies the first position among the Spanish development, a trend that has remained unchanged until this same week, when the Congress rejected …
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El Día de CórdobaIf the reality of millions of citizens showed that access to housing had become a dramatic problem, if the polls said that it was the first concern of the Spaniards and that 83.1% believe that it will remain the same or worse in the coming years, is it not painful that only the shock of Maricarmen's eviction has put it first in the political fight? If when Sanchez came to the presidency the housing occupied the 14th place among the problems that…
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