A decree with her name on it, and nothing in it for her
In September, Maricarmen Abascal was carried out of the Madrid flat her family had rented since 1956. Six days later, Spain's government passed two emergency housing laws that people named after her. On Friday, the Congress threw both of them out.
How did one eviction reach parliament? This episode goes back to the 2008 crash and the evictions that followed, the investment funds that bought up Spain's homes, the tourism boom, and a generation that can't afford to leave home. Then the vote: who sank the decrees, why, and what a snap election could mean for Spain's housing.
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