Elderly disabled woman evicted after 71 years allowed to return home following protests
The agreement caps her rent at 30% of income and lets her return under an eight-year lease after protests over Spain’s housing crisis.
- On Tuesday, 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal secured an eight-year rental agreement allowing her return to her Madrid apartment at approximately €500 monthly, her lawyer Beatriz Duro announced.
- The deal follows Abascal's court-ordered eviction on September 23 by investment fund Urbagestión, which removed the wheelchair user from her Retiro home after she had lived there for 70 years.
- Tens of thousands marched through Madrid on Saturday, with activists establishing a camp at Puerta del Sol demanding rent freezes and stronger tenant protections against speculative purchases.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's cabinet approved two emergency housing decrees on Tuesday, including an eviction ban until 2030 and tax incentives for affordable rentals.
- Parliament must ratify the decrees within 30 days, though the fragmented legislature poses an uphill battle; protesters maintain their encampment demanding broader legal reforms.
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After several days of protests calling for better protection of tenants, the Spanish government presented on Tuesday several measures to respond to the housing crisis that hit the
87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked protests in Spain is returning home
Spain’s coalition government said it had agreed on proposals including banning evictions until 2030 to address the country’s housing crisis, as the 87-year-old woman whose forced removal last week triggered protests accepted an offer to return home. Hundreds of people remained camped in one of Madrid’s main squares on Tuesday to protest Maricarmen Abascal’s removal from her home on a stretcher last Wednesday. They are demanding legal reforms in…
The expulsion from her home of a 87-year-old woman, a week ago, triggered a wave of indignation that forced the Spanish parties to agree. Two royal decree-laws, announced on Tuesday 29 September, are to be voted in Parliament on Friday, a procedure of rare speed.
The government also intends to implement the "prohibition of the purchase of housing by vulture funds," according to the minister
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