An 87-year-old pistillate has been evicted from her location successful Madrid wherever she has lived for 7 decades, successful a lawsuit which has enactment the spotlight connected Spain's soaring rents and deficiency of disposable housing.
The tenant, known by her archetypal name, Maricarmen, was removed from her level successful the Retiro country of cardinal Madrid connected Wednesday, with radical taking portion successful a protestation astatine her spot clashing with police.
Maricarman was near incapable to wage her rent aft concern steadfast Urbagestión, which bought the spot successful 2018, accrued it from €500 (£428; $572) to €2,650 (£2,280; $3,020) - though aboriginal offering to trim this to €1,650 (a fig she was inactive incapable to wage connected her pension of €1,350).
The BBC's Guy Hedgecoe looks astatine wherefore this eviction has drawn truthful overmuch attraction to Spain's lodging crisis.
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