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The Heartbreak Behind Spain’s Housing Crisis: What We Lose When We Ignore the Vulnerable | Women, Actually
In this episode of Women, Actually, host Oonagh Gonzales explores the devastating human cost of Spain’s housing crisis through the harrowing story of Maricarmen, an eighty-seven-year-old woman forcibly evicted from her home of seventy years. This is not just a local news story; it is a stark illustration of how systemic failures disproportionately impact the elderly, disabled, and those on fixed incomes when housing is treated as a commodity rather than a human right. The episode dissects the arithmetic of displacement, where rising market rents outpace wage growth, leaving vulnerable…
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