Thousands in Spain's Capital Protest Increasing Housing Costs
Protesters called for stronger limits on tourist rentals as housing costs rose nearly 13% year-on-year, Eurostat said.
- Thousands rallied in central Madrid on Sunday against spiraling housing costs that have priced many Spaniards out of the market despite recent economic growth in cities like Barcelona.
- Eurostat reported housing costs rose nearly 13% year-on-year at the end of 2025, while The Bank estimates the Southern European nation of 50 million is short of adequate housing supply.
- Protesters demanded a crackdown on tourist rentals proliferating across Spain's city centers. One banner read, "We want neighbors, not tourists."
- Last month, the government passed a €7 billion housing plan over four years, though a separate decree extending rent freezes failed to pass Parliament, exposing political weakness.
- The housing crisis remains one of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's main political vulnerabilities ahead of 2027 elections, as Spaniards continue demanding solutions to affordability.
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Hundreds of people have gone out on Sunday to the streets of the city of Madrid to "fight for the right to decent housing", demand "urgent measures" in the face of an "unprecedented crisis" and protest against "rentism attacks that empty the neighborhoods."
Tens of thousands of people fill the streets to protest the “impoverishment and expulsion machine” in which housing has become. Zaragoza, Teruel, Badajoz and Guadalajara join simultaneous calls.Main themes: Right to housingRead full article
This Sunday, May 24, several cities are mobilizing again for the problem of housing in Spain. The biggest demonstration takes place in Madrid, where at twelve o'clock in the morning a march is called that will start from Atocha and advance to the area of Seville organized by the Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid under the slogan 'Housing costs us our lives. Let's lower the prices'. This is the main mobilization of a state campaign t…
For once, Guadalajara is the forerunner and Madrid is following the wake of the capital of Alcarreña in a citizen demand. Following this Saturday’s demonstration by the Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos, which gathered hundreds of people in Guadalajara, it is Sunday’s turn for the capital of Spain to make these demands heard. Madrid is hosting a housing demonstration this Sunday, convened by the Sindicato de Inquilinas de Madrid and supported…
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