Eviction: Where Are Tenants Most and Least Protected Across Europe?
The government says the emergency package could help more than 5 million people as it moves to extend tenant protections until 2030.
- On Wednesday, authorities evicted 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from her Madrid home after investment firm Urbagesa raised her rent 530%. The disabled pensioner, who had lived in the flat since 1956, was carried out on a stretcher.
- Speculative 'vulture funds' have exacerbated Spain's housing shortage, where publicly subsidized rentals make up less than 2% of the market against an EU average of around 8%. Spain faces a deficit of around 550,000 homes.
- Protesters established a growing tent camp in Madrid's Puerta del Sol, with roughly 1,000 people gathered by Tuesday morning. The Sindicato de Inquilinas tenants' union claimed 300,000 marched, though the government cited around 25,000 participants.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's cabinet delivered an emergency housing package, dubbed the 'Maricarmen decree,' including a rent cap and ban on speculative purchases until 2028. Eviction protections for vulnerable tenants extend to 31 December 2030.
- Both decrees face an uncertain extraordinary vote in Congress on Friday as Sanchez's minority government needs opposition support. The Madrid regional government issued a 48-hour ultimatum to clear the Puerta del Sol camp, while Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz urged continued street pressure.
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More than a law, it's a license for terror. They just have to sing the "Owner to the Wall." Except for the Great Wyoming, of course.
The 87-year-old woman who was evicted from home on the 23rd will, after all, be able to return to her 70-year-old home. In periclitating health, a wave of solidarity was generated that succeeded in the unprecedented reversal of an eviction
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She had been expelled from her home on Wednesday, 23 September. Maricarmen, 87, will be able to return to her apartment, after several days of demonstrations in Madrid. This expulsion shocked Spain, as the country is going through a housing crisis.
The first sentence of the case of the old woman expelled from the home of Mayor Sainz of Baranda understood that Urbageso, who bought the apartment in 2018, allowed her stay "in clear and unequivocal terms" to later change her mindThe small letter of the measures of the housing decree: compensation for eviction, temporary rent and extensions Maricarmen's eviction from the house that lived for 70 years in Madrid is on the way to reverse itself an…
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