The nationwide protests could become the biggest rally related to housing rights in recent memory. Nearly all of Spain’s major provincial capitals and major cities are set to take part.

"It is a concern that affects workers, business owners, young people, families and the elderly, because the right to decent housing has become an unattainable luxury for many," they added.

The Spanish city’s woes mirror a broader affordable-housing crunch spreading rapidly across Europe and driving inequality. Three years after a Spanish investor paid 6 million euros to acquire ...

Spain’s government has started listening to demands for more regulation, particularly around housing in Spain’s big cities, where rising home and rental prices have become a key concern for ...

But CaixaBank, Spain's third-largest lender by market value, revealed in January that foreign demand for housing in Spain has continued to grow since the end of the pandemic. Foreigners were ...

While other European housing markets register price falls ... The Global Financial Crisis affected Spain severely. In the decade to 2007, Spanish property prices soared by 200% with mortgage ...

As Spain continues dealing with a nationwide housing crisis, its government has proposed an unconventional fix to the problem — and one that will not please foreigners. Spain has announced plans ...

Madrid’s right-wing city hall has a target of 15,000 social housing units by 2027. READ: Foreign workers help Spain’s economic growth outpace US, Europe This compares with 260,570 social ...

"These new tenants will never have to spend more than 30 percent of their monthly income on housing," he added. But this lottery meets just one per cent of demand. - Protests - Only 90,000 new units ...

Only 90,000 new units are built in Spain every year while 120,000 new households are created, according to Idealista figures, leading to a housing shortage that has caused rents to soar.