Tens of Thousands in Spain Take to Streets to Protest Housing Crisis
Organizers said 500,000 people joined Madrid’s march as protests spread to 50 cities over rejected emergency tenant protections.
- Tens of thousands of protesters flooded Madrid's streets on Saturday, October 3, 2026, demanding affordable housing and stronger renter protections, with simultaneous demonstrations across around 50 Spanish cities.
- Opposition parties voted down two emergency housing decrees on Friday, October 2, 2026, with 178 MPs rejecting the first decree while 172 voted in favour, blocking protections against evictions and restrictions on 'vulture funds'.
- The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal from her 70-year Madrid home sparked the week-long protest wave, though turnout estimates diverged sharply with authorities citing around 70,000 participants while the Tenants' Union claimed 500,000.
- Police used tear gas and rubber bullets in Valencia after dozens of demonstrators breached the City of Arts and Sciences landmark, resulting in five arrests and nine police officers injured.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's inner circle reportedly views a snap election before year-end as nearly certain, with Housing Minister Pablo Bustinduy warning it would become a 'referendum on housing' amid coalition tensions over timing.
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Tens of thousands of protesters in Madrid have once again demanded measures to address Spain's housing crisis. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in Madrid and other Spanish cities, demanding measures to address the housing crisis, a day after the Spanish Parliament rejected two government measures to protect tenants. At the heart of the public debate is the possibility of accessing affordable housing, but also the political m…
Tens of thousands of people, about 70 thousand according to the government delegation, went to the square in the center of the Spanish capital Madrid in a common front against all sectors...
Thousands with keys after stop to the decrees. The left brake Sanchez on the vote (ANSA)
A large part of the country was moved by the expulsion about ten days ago of Maricarmen Abascal, a 87-year-old Madrilène. The government proposed measures for tenants, rejected on Friday by Parliament. The mobilization is taking on more beautiful.
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