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 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 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 Ada Colau, the woman who's fought for thousands of families facing eviction in Spain's economic crisis, has decided to quit her role as spokesperson for her controversial lobby group the PAH. https://www.thelocal.es/20140508/spain-evictions-warrior-ada-colau Thu, 08 May 2014 12:32:00 +0200 spain-evictions-warrior-ada-colau 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 Doris Perez broke into tears when she heard she could stay a fortnight more in the Spanish apartment she has occupied, amid a mass protest to save her and scores of others from eviction. https://www.thelocal.es/20131017/tearful-tenants-win-eu-home-eviction-reprieve Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:26:00 +0200 tearful-tenants-win-eu-home-eviction-reprieve Spain's anti-eviction lobby, the PAH, has called on supporters to bombard the public defender's office with telephone calls until the organization supports their cause in the country's constitutional court. https://www.thelocal.es/20130812/anti-evictions-lobby-to-harass-ombudsman Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:58:35 +0200 anti-evictions-lobby-to-harass-ombudsman The European Parliament is looking at signing off on a report recommending key changes to mortgage laws in member nations. https://www.thelocal.es/20130610/eu-pushes-for-changes-to-spains-mortgage-laws Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:11:00 +0200 eu-pushes-for-changes-to-spains-mortgage-laws A Eurodeputy from Spain's governing Popular Party has labelled "a disgrace" the decision by the European Parliament to give the country's anti-evictions lobby, the PAH, a prize for its work. https://www.thelocal.es/20130607/the-eus-anti-evictions-lobby-prize-is-a-scandal Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:21:00 +0200 the-eus-anti-evictions-lobby-prize-is-a-scandal Spain's controversial anti-evictions lobby, the PAH, has been awarded a key citizenship prize by the European Parliament. https://www.thelocal.es/20130606/spains-anti-evictions-lobby-wins-eu-citizenship-prize Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:46:00 +0200 spains-anti-evictions-lobby-wins-eu-citizenship-prize A man who was facing eviction in Spain was found hanged inside his apartment on Monday, the latest in a string of suicides linked to evictions in the country which is struggling with record unemployment and a double-dip recession, officials said. https://www.thelocal.es/20130507/suicide-stirs-up-spains-home-evictions-debate Tue, 07 May 2013 11:01:35 +0200 suicide-stirs-up-spains-home-evictions-debate A politician from the left-wing Catalan Compromís-Equo group caused a stir in the country's parliament on Wednesday when he performed a mock striptease to protest against Spain's regime of forced home evictions. https://www.thelocal.es/20130424/stripping-mp-heats-up-spanish-parliament Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:22:00 +0200 stripping-mp-heats-up-spanish-parliament With home evictions being carried out at a rate of one every fifteen minutes last year in Spain, The Local looks at whether demonstrations directly targeting politicians in their homes and offices — or so-called "escraches" — are justified. https://www.thelocal.es/20130416/escrache Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:09:00 +0200 escrache Spain's anti-evictions movement, the PAH, are planning to follow up nationwide protests on Tuesday with a busy spring involving continued protests in front of the office of the ruling Popular Party around the country. https://www.thelocal.es/20130410/anti-evictions-groups-gears-up-for-busy-spring Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:12:00 +0200 anti-evictions-groups-gears-up-for-busy-spring Opponents of Spain's eviction laws are taking their protests to politicians' homes and offices as they step up efforts to stop people losing their homes. https://www.thelocal.es/20130404/anti-eviction-protestors-bring-fight-home Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:33:00 +0200 anti-eviction-protestors-bring-fight-home Homeowners ruined by Spain's economic crisis and their defenders hailed a big step forward on Thursday after Europe's top court ruled that the country's eviction laws breached EU rules. https://www.thelocal.es/20130315/spanish-homeowners-hail-eu-eviction-vote Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:32:26 +0100 spanish-homeowners-hail-eu-eviction-vote The walls of the apartment are cracked and patched with damp, but the faded family photographs of Maria Luisa Brana, her husband and their four children, are still hanging. https://www.thelocal.es/20130226/action-group-shuts-door-on-home-evictions Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:16:00 +0100 action-group-shuts-door-on-home-evictions Firemen and locksmiths in Spain are rebelling against a wave of evictions in the economic crisis by refusing to help bailiffs open ruined homeowners' doors to throw them out. https://www.thelocal.es/20130222/firemen-hose-down-evictions-plans Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:30:00 +0100 firemen-hose-down-evictions-plans