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The country spent several days with the 87-year-old woman before two of the four eviction attempts, one in 2025 and the other two weeks ago
The pressure on the streets, especially in Madrid, has hastened PSOE and Sumar to agree on the two texts that are being voted on today in Congress and that Catalan independence has announced that they reject
If it irritates you that I have scandalized this eviction and not others, it's because you so far didn't care. And now, that the problem has exploded, it turns out you don't care anymore: it bothers you to explode.
Jordi, his sister and three children lived for 11 years on rent: "The salary does not come to me to pay"
The Supreme upheld the end of the rent despite the fact that several owners had accepted the subrogation for years and that the contract was born vitiated by Franco law
The wide diversity of owners and the different positions of political groups make it possible to legislate on rent
The 87-year-old Maricarren Abascal eviction brought back a debate that has been suffocating the Spaniards for years: the housing crisis. In 2025, 25,540 expulsions were recorded, mostly for non-payment of rent. I mean, there was an eviction every 20 minutes, 70 every day. Real estate speculation, vulture funds and housing shortages aggravate the problem of 18 other European Union countries and replicate in other latitudes, such as in Mexico.
In networks, it was a feast of some colleagues. At the discussion tables, and depending on what well you look at, too.
Maricarren Abascal, a 87-year-old retired, was unable to leave her own foot of a house she had occupied in Madrid since she was 16. Confinished to a wheelchair, she had half an hour to gather her essential belongings before being evicted on a stretcher by police officers who executed an eviction ordered by a court. The case of the octogenaria has again highlighted the real estate drama of Spain.
This has been the last eight hours of tension that have ended with the 87-year-old woman being transferred to Gregorio Marañón Hospital
Maricarren, an apartment tenant in central Madrid, could not pay the rent fixed by the company that bought it years ago.
The National Police have access to the home of the 87-year-old neighbor, who has had to leave for the apartment she has spent her whole life in.
After 71 years in their rental house, the woman in a wheelchair is left on the street without a permanent accommodation
