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    "parsed_content": "AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTEvicted Woman Set to Return Home as Spain Announces Plans to Fix Housing CrisisThe eviction of an 87-year-old set off protests in the country, which has an acute housing shortage. The government presented legislation to protect renters.Listen \u00b7 5:59 min Share full articleVideoEvicted Woman to Return Home Amid Spain Housing Crisis UproarThe eviction of 87-year-old Mar\u00eda del Carmen Abascal in Madrid set off protests over the country\u2019s acute housing shortage and rent affordability crisis. On Tuesday, a deal was reached for her to return home and the government presented new policies to protect renters.CreditCredit...Fernando S\u00e1nchez\/Europa Press, via Associated PressBy Jason Horowitz and Carlos Barrag\u00e1nReporting from MadridSept. 29, 2026Leer en espa\u00f1olSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google An 87-year-old woman in Spain whose eviction prompted large protests will be allowed to return home, her representatives said Tuesday, and the Spanish government announced proposals to protect renters that it hopes to pass through Parliament.The woman, Mar\u00eda del Carmen Abascal, known throughout Spain as Maricarmen, was evicted from her home in Madrid last week, angering many Spaniards and catapulting the country\u2019s housing crisis to the center of political debate.On Tuesday, Beatriz Duro, a lawyer for Ms. Abascal, and Urbagesti\u00f3n, the real estate company that owns her apartment, said that they had reached an agreement. Ms. Duro said the deal gave Ms. Abascal, who is currently in a Madrid hospital, an eight-year lease with a monthly rent equivalent to 30 percent of her pension, or about $460.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMadrid\u2019s tenant union, which organized the protests, quickly celebrated.\u201cTogether we are stronger than any politician, judge or speculator,\u201d it wrote on social media late Monday.ImageProtesters camping in the Puerta del Sol plaza in Madrid on Sunday.Credit...Oscar del Pozo\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesMs. Abascal\u2019s eviction touched a nerve in a country increasingly frustrated with high housing costs and created intense pressure on the left-wing government of Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez, who had promised to make housing a priority.On Tuesday, the government said it had reached a deal with its partners in a parliamentary coalition and introduced two proposals that will undergo a vote in Parliament on Friday.The first, which has a better chance of passing, would ban evictions of vulnerable tenants like Ms. Abascal until 2030 and would generally extend eviction protections that had recently expired until that date.Those protections, presented by Isabel Rodr\u00edguez, the housing minister, at a news conference on Tuesday, include an option for tenants to extend expired leases at the same rate by an additional two years. The proposal also contains measures to curb short-term rentals and the acquiring of properties by some real estate investors.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBut this package does not contain a measure that tenant rights activists have called for: the automatic renewal of rental agreements, without a possibility for expiration or rent increases.That proposal will stand on its own. The conservative opposition is likely to oppose it, but so is a party that is more sympathetic to the interests of landlords and that Mr. S\u00e1nchez\u2019s minority government needs to pass legislation.Over the past few days, activists furious over Ms. Abascal\u2019s eviction and the lack of affordable housing have camped out in Madrid\u2019s Puerta del Sol, a square popular with tourists that marks the geographic center of Spain.\u201cThe situation is getting serious,\u201d Dora Garc\u00eda, a 55-year-old nurse, said in the square on Saturday night. Ms. Garc\u00eda said she feared her landlord would increase her rent again after she was \u201cpushed out\u201d of her previous Madrid neighborhood.\u201cWe the renters have the sword of Damocles hanging over us,\u201d she said.Spain faces a housing shortfall of about 755,000 homes, according to the Bank of Spain, which has predicted that could rise to a million homes by 2028.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTExperts attribute the shortage to a complex range of factors.Spain built too much in the 2000s because of a housing bubble. When the bubble popped during the financial crisis, prices cratered and the country became reluctant to build new housing. Then, to revive the market, Spain made it easier for landlords, companies and foreign buyers to buy in.ImageDemonstrators pushing down security barriers during a protest in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday.Credit...Josep Lago\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesBut in the last five years, Spain has boomed with an influx of wealthy foreign investors, about three million immigrants and a mass of tourists \u2014 projected to hit 100 million in 2026 \u2014 who often stay in short-term rentals that deplete the housing stock.As a result, demand vastly outstrips supply in the urban centers where most people live, driving up prices and leaving an increasing number of Spaniards, especially young ones, behind. Their growing frustration exploded last week when the police broke down Ms. Abascal\u2019s door and she left the apartment on a stretcher.\u201cWhat this highlights vividly is the extent of the housing crisis that has been going on for a long time now,\u201d said Raymond Torres, an economist at Funcas, a think tank in Spain.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPrivate individuals own over 90 percent of Spain\u2019s rental properties, according to the Bank of Spain. Still, many protesters blame real estate companies, which left-wing critics call \u201cvulture funds,\u201d for gutting housing stock and raising prices.\u201cWe can\u2019t live in our own apartment \u2014 we have to share with two other people,\u201d Ana L\u00f3pez, 29, said alongside her girlfriend next to the Puerta del Sol camp on Saturday night. \u201cSpeculators, vulture funds, tourists. What about us?\u201dIn Spain, which prizes homeownership, about 20 percent of people rent while another roughly 7 percent live rent-free, often with relatives.Bureaucratic and jurisdictional barriers have made building new housing difficult. Public housing makes up only 2 percent of Spain\u2019s housing stock, as opposed to 10 percent throughout Europe, in part because Spain has previously allowed renters to buy public housing units at low prices.The government on Tuesday sought to address some of those challenges. But Mr. Torres, the economist, said, \u201cIn the long run, there\u2019s no solution other than to build 750,000 new houses.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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