https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A UN committee has ordered Spain to compensate a single mother and her six children who were forcibly evicted during a housing crisis that saw tens of thousands forced from their homes. https://www.thelocal.es/20191031/un-watchdog-faults-spain-over-forced-eviction Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:33 +0100 un-watchdog-faults-spain-over-forced-eviction Leah Pattem shares what it's like to be on the front line of an eviction. https://www.thelocal.es/20190124/meet-madrids-anti-eviction-warriors Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:46:46 +0100 meet-madrids-anti-eviction-warriors A Spanish pensioner killed herself by jumping from the fifth floor of her Madrid apartment on Monday as police tried to evict her. https://www.thelocal.es/20181127/spanish-pensioner-kills-herself-over-eviction Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:46:12 +0100 spanish-pensioner-kills-herself-over-eviction Barcelona's leftwing city council on Monday charged three Spanish banks over a million euros in fines for keeping four apartments empty for more than two years. https://www.thelocal.es/20161122/barcelona-city-hall-fines-banks-over-empty-flats Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:51:40 +0100 barcelona-city-hall-fines-banks-over-empty-flats The death of an elderly Spanish woman in a fire caused by a candle used for light sparked outrage on Tuesday as a symbol of "energy poverty", a growing threat amid soaring power prices. https://www.thelocal.es/20161116/storm-over-spanish-pensioners-energy-poverty-death Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:58:08 +0100 storm-over-spanish-pensioners-energy-poverty-death Rights group Amnesty International has launched its first campaign against evictions, tackling the widespread problem in crisis-hit Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20150624/amnesty-launches-first-campaign-against-spanish-evictions Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:11:11 +0200 amnesty-launches-first-campaign-against-spanish-evictions Spain's Constitutional Court on Tuesday struck down a regional law which blocked banks from repossessing homes from the most needy families for up to three years, arguing the law was an attack on private property rights. https://www.thelocal.es/20150527/court-deals-blow-in-fight-againt-evictions Wed, 27 May 2015 11:10:05 +0200 court-deals-blow-in-fight-againt-evictions Spain's government says the economy is improving after years of crisis, but thousands of families are still suffering. https://www.thelocal.es/20150318/spains-indignants-combat-mass-eviction-trauma Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:00:46 +0100 spains-indignants-combat-mass-eviction-trauma Nearly 35,000 home foreclosures were carried out last year in Spain, or 95 each day, as families struggled to make mortgage payments despite a rebound in the economy, official data published Thursday showed. https://www.thelocal.es/20150306/hundred-spanish-families-lose-home-every-day-data Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:07:23 +0100 hundred-spanish-families-lose-home-every-day-data Over 50 police were allegedly on hand in Madrid on Friday for the home eviction of a family with three children including a six-week-old baby. https://www.thelocal.es/20150123/evicted-family-with-one-month-old-baby-madrid-spain Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:09:00 +0100 evicted-family-with-one-month-old-baby-madrid-spain Behind the iron door of a ground floor flat in Madrid's working-class suburb of Vallecas around 30 people have gathered as Veronica Hidalgo announces she will be evicted from her home in 2015. https://www.thelocal.es/20150104/bleak-2015-outlook-for-crisis-hit-spaniards Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:26:27 +0100 bleak-2015-outlook-for-crisis-hit-spaniards Madrid's modest football team Rayo Vallecano has comes good on its promise to take care of an 85-year-old woman who was evicted from her home with an exciting new charity initiative. https://www.thelocal.es/20141128/football-club-creates-row-zero-for-down-and-outs Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:33:00 +0100 football-club-creates-row-zero-for-down-and-outs A Spanish judge has halted a state-run building company’s plans to change the social housing contracts for 185 needy families in Spain’s capital as a means of solving their financial problems. https://www.thelocal.es/20140808/judge-stops-madrid-mayor-from-evicting-185-families Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:46:00 +0200 judge-stops-madrid-mayor-from-evicting-185-families Spanish police have arrested six people who were trying to stop the eviction of a family with three children, the youngest only 20 days old, from their home in Madrid on Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140627/family-with-3-week-old-baby-evicted-in-madrid Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:27:00 +0200 family-with-3-week-old-baby-evicted-in-madrid International NGO Human Rights Watch released a detailed report on Wednesday in which they accuse the Spanish government of taking "insufficient action to alleviate the impact of the housing and debt crisis" for thousands of evicted families. https://www.thelocal.es/20140528/human-rights-watch-spain-evictions Wed, 28 May 2014 16:07:00 +0200 human-rights-watch-spain-evictions Police clashed with protesters who burned bins and vehicles in Barcelona on Monday as anger boiled over at the eviction of activists from a well-known squat. https://www.thelocal.es/20140527/protesters-clash-with-police-over-squat-eviction Tue, 27 May 2014 11:04:00 +0200 protesters-clash-with-police-over-squat-eviction Nearly 50,000 Spanish families lost their homes in 2013, up 11 percent on a year earlier, as the country's economic crisis showed little sign of abating, figures released on Monday show. https://www.thelocal.es/20140519/evictions-still-rife-as-bad-loans-level-dip Mon, 19 May 2014 20:30:00 +0200 evictions-still-rife-as-bad-loans-level-dip At 104, Inocencia Zofío is quite possibly the oldest person in Spain fighting not to be kicked out of her home. Her story has sent shockwaves through Spanish society and proven just how ruthless the country's authorities can be when evicting helpless homeowners and tenants. https://www.thelocal.es/20140509/im-not-leaving-spains-104-year-old-eviction-fighter Fri, 09 May 2014 12:08:00 +0200 im-not-leaving-spains-104-year-old-eviction-fighter Anti-eviction activists blocked Wednesday the entrance to 12 branches of Spain's Banco Popular bank, which they accuse of not doing enough to prevent struggling mortgage holders from losing their homes. https://www.thelocal.es/20140410/spanish-bank-feels-heat-in-anti-eviction-protests Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:09:46 +0200 spanish-bank-feels-heat-in-anti-eviction-protests Europe has over 11 million empty properties, 3.4 million of which are in Spain, which is more than enough to house the continent’s homeless population of 4.1 million, a UK newspaper has reported. https://www.thelocal.es/20140225/spain-worst-in-europe-for-empty-properties Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:29:00 +0100 spain-worst-in-europe-for-empty-properties