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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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…
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.
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