In Madrid, an 87-year-old woman named Maricarmen Abascal was carried from the apartment she had called home for 71 years, removed by riot police after an eight-year legal struggle with a real estate company that had acquired her building. Her departure — brief, witnessed by protesters, and ending in an ambulance — has become an emblem of a deeper tension running through Spain's cities: the collision between the market value of land and the human weight of a life lived upon it. The case arrives at a moment when Spain's political institutions remain too fractured to resolve the question of who,
Madrid eviction of 87-year-old reignites Spain's housing crisis debate
An 87-year-old woman was forcibly removed from her home of 71 years and transported by ambulance to a hospital, leaving her housing status uncertain.