The Housing in Madridas in other large cities in Spain such as Barcelona, it has been involved, in recent months, in a “Housing emergency”. This is how the thousands of people who have left this Sunday, February 9, to demonstrate to the streets of the capital to demand “right for decent housing” and against speculation.
A manifestation that, under the motto ‘dignified and sustainable housing now!’ They have joined for add efforts and eradicate this problem with which Madrid is being found. All of them have lamented that national and regional institutions “They have not taken the solutions that demanded last time”. It should be remembered that on October 13 they demonstrated for the same reason.
What do the protesters claim
The more than 15,000 participants, according to the Government Delegation, and around 60,000, according to the organizers of the demonstration, have revealed the housing access conditionswho go through prices, which have not stopped uploading in recent monthsas well as the increase in evictions of vulnerable families.
In addition, after almost two hours of march, the conveners have come to the door of the Sun, where they have sounded their keychains in protest and where a manifesto has been read, in which The extension and application of the Housing Law in the capital has been claimedwith special emphasis on the maximum rapter of rental prices.
But also They have demanded that an Autonomous Housing Law be approvedwhich collects the creation of a public housing park.
Madrid leads the housing price ranking
Once again, the capital led the ranking, at the national level, of the average price of housing in Spain during the last four -month period of 2024. Madrid thus registered the highest price with 3,780 euros per square meterstanding at the head of the provincial capitals.