Madrid

The Guardian and the New York Times reported that María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose forced eviction ignited Spain’s national housing protests, has died in Madrid. Last month she was carried out on a stretcher from the apartment she had lived in for more than 70 years, and the fallout forced the government to adjust housing policy.

According to The Guardian, the forced eviction of an 87-year-old woman from the home she had lived in for seven decades has triggered nationwide protests across Spain’s largest cities. Demonstrators in Madrid and Barcelona are demanding urgent government action on housing affordability and speculative rental practices.