Thousands march in Madrid to protest Spain’s housing crisis after eviction of 87-year-old woman
- Thousands of people marched through Madrid on Saturday to protest the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal earlier this week, demanding greater protections for tenants facing displacement.
- Maricarmen Abascal was forced from her home of 70 years after a real estate firm raised rent by 275 per cent to €2,650, exemplifying Spain's acute housing shortage of 700,000 homes.
- Protester Enrique Ortega, a 38-year-old graphic designer, called the market "impossible," while engineer Irene Lopez said the situation "has become unsustainable." Government authorities estimated turnout at around 25,000; organizers claimed 300,000 participated.
- Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who pledged to make housing a priority last year, faces mounting pressure; the government expects to approve the "Maricarmen decree" with automatic contract renewals and eviction restrictions.
- With a general election due in 2027, political parties face increased pressure to act on housing; however, it remains unclear whether the government can pass the decree without a parliamentary majority.
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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…
Hundreds of people have spent the morning of this Sunday camped in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol in protest of the housing crisis, exclaiming that they can’t stand it anymore and that ‘either the rent or the government falls’. A protest that comes to wait for the Council of Ministers to pass a royal decree on Tuesday
After 70 years, a retired woman has to leave her home in Madrid against her will. The case triggers a mass demonstration.
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Madrid to protest Spain's housing crisis after an 87-year-old woman was evicted from the apartment she had lived in for decades, in a case that has become a symbol of the country's worsening housing problems, Sky News reported.
Hundreds of people camped during the morning in the center of the capital Madrid, as a protest against the housing crisis in Spain, declaring that "or rentism falls, or the government falls".
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