Madrid housing protests enter third day after pensioner's eviction
Hundreds of activists camped in Puerta del Sol as Spain’s government prepared emergency tenant measures and a vote on tighter eviction rules.
- On Monday, protesters entered their third day camped in Madrid's historic Puerta del Sol plaza, demanding stronger tenant protections following the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal.
- Tensions erupted last week after police removed Abascal on a stretcher from her Retiro home of seven decades, following an investment fund's eviction order that allowed just 30 minutes to leave.
- On Saturday, 30,000 people marched through Madrid to protest housing conditions, with marchers carrying banners declaring, "Speculators go home" and "Housing is for living."
- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stated Sunday the government plans a housing decree by Tuesday for immediate tenant relief, while regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso blamed Sanchez's government for eight years of housing inaction.
- The Tenants' Union is coordinating further protests across Spain as the unrest unfolds against a 750,000-home deficit and rents that have doubled over the past decade.
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By R. Adrián – Sep 29, 2026 Over the last week, the name Maricarmen has taken over headlines in Spain. This 87-year-old disabled woman had been living in her Madrid apartment for 71 years until her brutal eviction last week. There has been an outpouring of sympathy for this innocent woman and her steadfast struggle […]
Spain is crossed by a new wave of protests against the housing crisis and the high rent, exploded after the eviction in Madrid of the "87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal." The demonstrations spread to numerous cities, while the Parliament rejected the two decrees on the house proposed by the government, which provided, among other things, greater protection against evictions for vulnerable people without a housing alternative. In Madrid the proteste…
As tenant protection measures drafted in the wake of a controversy over the forced eviction of an 87-year-old tenant were rejected by parliament, large-scale protests demanding a solution to the housing shortage and rent control erupted in Madrid and major cities across Spain. This exposed the weak parliamentary base of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who leads the minority coalition government, and
(Berlin=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Gye-yeon = Protests against the housing shortage in Spain, sparked by the forced eviction of an 87-year-old man, are spreading day by day.
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