Spain’s housing crisis exposes systemic eviction of elderly as neoliberal policy collides with intergenerational equity
Original framing: “Thousands march in Spain over eviction of 87-year-old woman Maricarmen Abascal” — South China Morning Post
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Spain’s housing crisis traces back to the 1980s, when the *Ley del Suelo* (Land Law) was rewritten to favor developers over social housing. The 2008 financial collapse exacerbated this, with banks seizing 600,000 homes by 2013. The 2015 *Ley de Arrendamientos Urbanos* further tilted the balance toward landlords, while the 2023 *Plan Estatal de Vivienda* remains underfunded. Maricarmen’s eviction is the latest chapter in a decades-long erosion of tenant protections, mirroring post-colonial housing dispossessions in Latin America and Africa.