Eviction of 87-Year-Old Woman Sparks Madrid Protests
- Police evicted 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from her Madrid apartment, where she had lived since 1956, after a court battle over her tenancy.
- The property’s owner, Urbagestión, sought to raise her rent from about €500 to as much as €2,650 per month.
- Protesters gathered outside to support Abascal as police cleared the crowd during the eviction.
- Madrid authorities offered alternative accommodation, but Abascal declined and chose to stay with relatives.
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Unable to pay a rent multiplied by five, the disabled pensioner was evicted on Wednesday 23 September from the apartment where she had lived for seventy and eleven years. Spain is indignant of this consequence of the deregulation of the housing market, due in particular to overtourism.
Evacuating an elderly woman from her home in Madrid, where she lived for seven decades, generated widespread protests in Spain and again drew attention to the seriousness of the housing crisis in this country. Maricarmen Abascal is 87 years old and, in the last 71 years, lived in the same apartment in Retiro neighborhood, located in the...
A 87-year-old woman has been stripped of her home in the heart of Madrid, where she lived for more than seven decades The post What about Maricarmen and the housing problem in Spain? appeared first on Rolling Stone in Spanish.
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The situation of the old woman is a stark illustration of the housing crisis in Spain, where short-term tourist rentals, such as Airbnb, and "vulture funds" are accused of blazing prices and reducing supply.
At the age of 87, Maricarmen had to leave the apartment where she had lived for 71 years. After several years of judicial battle and a 275% rent increase, the Madrilène was finally expelled, becoming
In Madrid, the judicial officers, protected by an imposing cord of riot-proof agents, carried out the eviction of Maricarmen, an 87-year-old woman, with a disability recognized by 50%. The elderly woman was evicted from the residence of Calle Sainz de Baranda, in the Retiro district, where she lived for 71 years. Thus ended a judicial battle lasting more than seven years, carried out by the retired against the investment fund Urbangestion, which…
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