A lawyer explains what will happen to squatters in Spain from next week: "Change the paradigm"

Okupación has become a source of problems in Spain in recent years. Difficulties in accessing decent housing have caused many to have opted for this illegal practice and the issue often ends with conflicts between tenants , neighboring communities or even authorities, although the latter cannot do much. In fact, legal and judicial reality makes many okupas have free way to invade homes of others. The situation, however, seems to be able to chang…

The program Todo es Mentira has recently addressed the issue of squatting, following the screening of a video broadcast on The AR Program. At the end of viewing the material, Xavier García Albiol, mayor of Badalona for the Popular Party, did not hesitate to offer his opinion on the matter. Faced with her statements, the well-known influencer Marina Rivers also expressed her point of view in a forceful way. Albiol's criticism of the squatter law …

Although denied by the Government, squatting hinders coexistence and directly attacks property rights over housing.

The fear of illegal squatting is still present in society, as it has become one of the main concerns of many owners. However, and although statistics indicate that most cases of squatting or usurpation occur in uninhabited properties, the feeling of insecurity and uncertainty about the times of recovery of the housing generate social alarm.To this is added the information about prolonged squats and the difficulty of some owners to recover their …

This first week of April comes into force the express eviction law that was published last January in the Official Gazette of the State and that since Podemos have tried to boycott. This amendment of the PNV was approved in its day with the votes in favor of Popular Party, Junts, UPN and Coalition Canaria, besides ERC and Bildu, who voted by mistake. PSOE and Sumar voted against a rule that punishes the squatters and will make many owners can re…

The opening of proceedings for hate crime against Daniel Esteve, leader of Desokupa, serves as an excuse for us to review the judicial problems of these ‘businesses’. In recent years, the narrative of the ‘okupación’ has been used as a weapon thrown by certain sectors to justify the proliferation of extrajudicial eviction companies, known as ‘desokupas’. However, official data contradict the alleged magnitude of this phenomenon. Of the 27 millio…