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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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"Please fight": the eviction of Maricarsen in Spain evokes new protests over the housing crisis

In her first message from the hospital she was moved to after being thrown out of the home she lived in for 71 years, the 87-year-old woman thanked the citizen's mobilizations for her support and promised to "continue fighting" for the right to housing in Spain. Under the slogan "Not one more Maricarren," the Inquilinas Union is preparing a major demonstration in Madrid on Saturday, September 26, as pressure grows for the government and the opposition to take new measures against the real estate speculators.

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"Social and political upheaval for the eviction of Maricarsen": 'El País'

In Revista de Prensa we reviewed the main Spanish portades with the debates unleashed by the eviction of Maricarsen, a 87-year-old woman who was evicted from an apartment in which she lived for more than 70 years. Diaries such as' El País', 'El Mundo' and 'La Vanguardia' analyze how both the national government, the premises of the Madrid Community and the political parties of the opposition receive cross-accusations about their responsibilities on the case, while in the streets the population moves against vulture funds and speculation with housing.

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"Maricarmen", the face of the housing crisis in Spain

On the front page of the press, on Thursday 24 September, indignation in Spain, after yesterday's expulsion of a pensioner of 87 years from the Madrid dwelling she had occupied for seventy years. The meeting yesterday between Pedro Sanchez and the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, on the margins of the UNGA. A new "plan" of the "peace council" for Gaza. And the kick-off of the League of Nations tonight.

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Why could they evict Maricarren?

At the age of 87, she was expelled from the apartment of Madrid in which she lived since 1956. Your case raises the extent to which the legal protection of vulnerable tenants comes

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See you later, Maricarren.

The 87-year-old woman was taken on a stretcher, as a war victim, but every day evictions are carried out in less photogenic neighborhoods without an eyebrow moving