Elderly disabled woman evicted after 71 years allowed to return home following protests
The agreement lets her return under an eight-year lease with rent capped at 30% of her income, after protests drew hundreds to the square.
- 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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Hunted from the house where she lived since 1956, she has become the symbol of the housing crisis. Now she will be able to return, while the protest is rampant in the country
An evicted 87-year-old woman will return to her apartment, but this won't solve the structural problem. Spain is grappling with expensive rent, a housing shortage, and a dispute over tenant protection. The post "Will the "Maricarmen Decrees" Stop Spain's Housing Crisis?" first appeared on Political Critique.
An 87-year-old woman is brought out of her apartment in Madrid after more than 70 years of forced removal: The case of Maricarmen Abascal triggered violent protests and a heated debate about the housing crisis in Spain. Now the turn: The senior is allowed back into her four walls. The real cause of the housing shortage, however, does not attack the left.
Pedro Sánchez announced two royal decrees to improve and guarantee access to housing in Spain.
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