Spain Unveils Housing Curbs After Maricarmen Eviction Sparks Protests

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The Council of Ministers this Tuesday had raised a great expectation among the hundreds of activists who camp in the tourist Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Installed there since Saturday night, they demand solutions to facilitate access to the house before a market with prices skyrocketing in recent years. Their outrage erupted after the eviction last week of Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Madrid woman who was forced to leave the flat she had liv…

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The government also intends to implement the "prohibition of the purchase of housing by vulture funds," according to the minister

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A few days after the expulsion of an 87-year-old, Spain's government has decided to reform the rental right, but the vote in Parliament is likely to be difficult.

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The 87-year-old was evicted from his apartment. Now Spain is considering a ban on evictions of vulnerable tenants.

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But the decree approved today by the Council of Ministers will have to be voted on Friday by Congress: the Junts and Podemos are still missing. Meanwhile the activists remain in Puerta del Sol. Ada Colau also victim of the expensive rent: the former mayor of Barcelona forced to leave the...