The social crisis that is generating the housing problem has exceeded the limits of what was estimated possible. According to the National Institute of Statistics, 80% of young Spaniards cannot become independent. For this reason, the Federación Regional de Asociaciones Vecinales de Madrid (FRAVM) has published a video through X in which it encourages all Madrid residents to take to the streets on Sunday, October 13. “I’m sick of spending all my salary in a twenty-square-meter dingy,” says the young woman in the video. “I need to live in dignity so I don’t depend on my parents or my friends,” she explains.
“There are homeless people while neighborhoods are sold to tourism, events and speculation,” assures the FRAVM in its latest publication in networks. With the slogan “housing is a right, not a business”, the federation brings together the Platform of People Affected by the Mortgage (PAH), Comisiones Obreras, UGT, Amnesty International and environmental organizations such as Greenpeace or Fridays for Future. It does so so that all the inhabitants of the capital can demonstrate for a dignified housing.
The demonstration will begin at 12:00 noon in Atocha and will end at plaza de Callao. According to El Pais sources, it will follow the line of other large protests such as those held this year in Malaga, Barcelona and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, three cities very affected by mass tourism.
According to the barometer of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS),housing is the third issue that most affects citizens personally after problems of an economic nature and the functioning of the health system.