People carry signs and banners during a demonstration to demand more affordable and sustainable housing amid rising prices in Madrid on February 9, 2025. (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP) On Saturday ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

"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.

Selected from a category of 171 entries from 19 European countries, the winners are La Borda Housing Collectie in Spain and Construction of a Wine Storage into Housing in Switzerland for the new ...

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.

Madrid's right-wing city hall has a target of 15,000 social housing units by 2027. Inside Spain: How privatising 2.7 million public flats caused the housing crisis This compares with 260,570 social ...