Thousands of protesters have returned to tour the Paseo del Prado in Madrid this Sunday in protest of the housing crisis and the increases in housing prices and to demand measures to alleviate this situation by public administrations. The Habitat 24 movement, which brings together almost 40 groups in favor of access to housing and neighborhood, union and social associations summoned the mobilization in Atocha from noon. Citizens have been directed to Puerta del Sol, where the headquarters of the Government of the Community of Madrid is located.
The march, summoned under the motto By decent and sustainable housingIt is the second mass protest after the occurrence on October 13 in the capital, which brought together 22,000 people according to the Government Delegation – 400,000 according to the Federation of Neighborhood Associations and 100,000 according to the tenant union. “We clearly said that housing is not a market good but a right. However, the administrations have continued without taking the necessary measures to comply with said constitutional mandate, ”they have lamented the calls in their manifesto. Today’s mobilization has brought together about 15,000 protesters, according to the Government Delegation, a figure that the tenant union raises to 50,000.
The INE certified a new record in the average amount of the houses, with 2,086 euros per square meter, according to the 2024 registry statistics. Last year it was the most expensive in history to acquire a home, when the average prices of 2006 were exceeded of 2006 and 2007. In Madrid, the rent of a simple room – comply with access to the common areas of a home – reached 586 euros on December 2024, according to
“It’s time for Ayuso to stop governing for the economic interests that have named her and start doing it for all citizens,” says the manifesto, read in front of the headquarters of the Government of Madrid. Meanwhile, the attendees who were arriving along the street of Alcalá raised their keys and made them sound as a protest. This has also been a recurring symbol in banners and has even given it a fan of metallic color at the head of the march. After making their demands known, the protesters have signed up for the Royal Post Palace to the shout of: “These in front, evict people.” While a woman raised a poster of just over four palms that was written: “This banner measures the square meters two that I can rent in Madrid.”
Gabi BiancoTti and his friends are some of the hundreds of young people who have attended the event to protest “their uncertain future.” “In my family or my parents or I have a house,” laments the 25 -year -old graphic designer. She feels lucky to have an indefinite contract, but still considers that it is impossible to save enough to get out of the house for which her parents pay a rent. “If you have a certain age you already want to emancipate, and try at the expense of my mental health,” he says.
according to the latest data of the financial survey of the families published by the Bank of Spain last week. This reality is linked to the emancipation rate until the middle of last year, 14.8%, the lowest from the first record of the Youth Council of Spain that began this series. It is a small group of children under 30, who to achieve this have crossed a series of obstacles that range from residential instability (45.7% of them have passed through two and four homes since they left their home of origin ) and the impossibility of living alone (87% share stay), according to this same organization.
Another of those affected by the high amounts of the rent is Ángel Torres, 35, who explains that he does not save enough to pay an entrance to a floor. “I am supposed to be in a decent agreement that is that of metal and I can’t afford a house. I am outraged that people from outside arrive with millions and pay Tocateja. It is a horrible impotence. ”
The promoter organizations have reflected in the manifesto several criticisms against the government of the Community of Madrid and have described their attitude of “especially bleeding” as regards the housing crisis. They have also denounced the effort of the regional authorities “for continuing to favor the business of investment funds, rentists and speculators”, above the interests of the citizenship.
The PSOE spokeswoman at the Madrid City Council, Reyes Maroto; The spokeswoman in the Assembly, Mar Espinar; the spokeswoman of more Madrid in the Consistory, Rita Maestre; The spokeswoman in the Vallecas Chamber, Manuela Bergerot. On the part of the national level, the Minister of Health, Mónica García; the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra; and the Secretary of Organization of Sumar, Lara Hernández. “Of course, the Government will not be able to approve the General State Budgets if the housing market does not intervene, lower rents and prohibit the purchase of housing that is not to reside,” Belarra assured.
Another aspect that has criticized the convening platform of the march is the desire to criminalize all the situations of occupation when in their opinion, “a good part of them are the result of the need and social despair in the absence of effective response by the competent administrations towards an increasingly impoverished citizenship. ”
The groups require a decalogue of actions, many of them already claimed since last October: impose the price stops of the State Housing Law, approve an Autonomous Housing Law that includes the creation of a non -disqualifiable public park of 30%, A plan for rehabilitation of real estate outside, the end of evictions without housing alternative and the suspension of tourist floors licenses.
They also claim access to the registration of public housing applicants of families without a qualifying title, the adaptation of neighborhoods to deal with climate change, environmental values such as axis for future urban projects, and immediate attention to the demands of Families of the Cañada Real and San Fernando and Coslada.
