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Maricarren case: Spain recorded an eviction every 20 minutes in 2025

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.

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Direct Spain and protests over the housing crisis following the eviction of Maricarren Abascal

The image of Maricarren Abascal, a 87-year-old retired woman and 50% disability, being evicted by the police this week from her home in Madrid, where she lived for more than seven decades, has touched a sensitive fiber in Spanish society which, with all its differences, finds consensus to denounce the crisis because of lack of access to housing. Inform our correspondent Marina Colorado.

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