Is Spain’s anti-eviction decree a fix for its housing crisis?
The government blames 'savage speculation' as critics say new measures leave small landlords 'out in the cold'.
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The government blames 'savage speculation' as critics say new measures leave small landlords 'out in the cold'.
The real estate firm backs down and restores her old rent after mass protests over Spain's housing crisis.
Spain’s coalition government said it had agreed on proposals including banning evictions until 2030 to address the country’s housing crisis, as the 87-year-old woman whose forced removal last week triggered protests accepted an offer to return home. Hundreds of people remained camped in one of Madrid’s main squares on Tuesday to protest Maricarmen Abascal’s removal from her home on a stretcher last Wednesday. They are demanding legal reforms including a rent freeze and the automatic renewal of...
A Madrid pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests that have piled pressure on the government to resolve Spain's housing crisis can return home after a deal with the property's owners, her lawyer said on Monday. Unaffordable housing has been a running sore for years in Spain, but the outcry over last Wednesday's eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal thrust the crisis to the forefront of the political debate. Demonstrators have set up roughly 100 tents in Madrid's emblematic Puerta del Sol square since Saturday night, while tens of thousands of people have protested across the country.
The eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, 87, prompted large-scale protests across Spain.
Thousands of people marched through Madrid on Saturday to protest the eviction earlier this week of an 87-year-old woman from her lifelong home, calling for greater protection for tenants. Images of Maricarmen Abascal being carried from her Madrid flat on a stretcher on Wednesday after police broke down her door have thrust Spain’s housing crisis back into the spotlight ahead of a general election due in 2027. Protesters rattled keys, blew whistles, chanted slogans and held banners calling for...
The eviction of an 87-year-old from her Madrid home has highlighted a political paralysis that has thwarted efforts to resolve Spain’s chronic housing crisis, fuelling debate before next year’s election. Maricarmen Abascal’s 70-year stay at her home in upmarket central Madrid ended on Wednesday when she left escorted on a stretcher, flanked by protesters on one side and police on the other – a traumatic event broadcast live on TV. Unable to afford a 275-per cent increase to the monthly rent...
The tenant of the flat in Madrid, Maricarmen, was unable to pay the rent set by the firm which recently bought it.
If someone was running a resort or a commercial complex or having a shopping mall there or having immoral or illegal activity there, we would have thrown them out, said the CJI
Hostile social media content, disinformation campaigns, and a petition calling for their expulsion: in Malaysia, a wave of hate speech has been targeting Rohingya refugees, a Muslim minority driven out of Myanmar. The rising hostility has already led to the eviction of more than 100 people from a village and forced the temporary closure of schools serving refugee children.
About 650 families, mostly migrant Muslims, were evicted in September 2024 to clear 100 bighas of notified tribal land in the Sonapur area of Kamrup Metropolitan district