“We don’t pay for what we don’t earn” – a nationwide initiative in Spain is organizing a rent strike

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Plakat der Mietstreik-Kampagne Spanien April 2020 “…It's definitely not an April Fool's joke. On April 1, 2020, many families, self-employed people and small and medium-sized companies across the Spanish state will go on rent strike. Tenants' unions, such as the “Sindicat de Llogaters i Llogateres” founded in Catalonia in 2017, and social organizations are calling for a strike against the social democratic government's lack of emergency measures for the common population. The 200 initiatives propose to stop paying rent from April. (…) The tenant unions were actually founded because of skyrocketing rents. So far, they have primarily called for stronger tenants' rights and regulation of skyrocketing rents, which Spanish laws practically do not protect against. Some of the activists had pinned their hopes on the new government, but they were massively disappointed…" - from theArticle “Rent strike due to coronavirus in Spain” by Ralf Streck on April 1st, 2020 at telepolis externer Link about the nationwide initiative. See further developments and background information:

Spain: Merciless for profit. The forced eviction of a pensioner's apartment sparks protests
"In Madrid, an 87-year-old woman was carried against her will on Wednesday from the apartment in which she had lived for 70 years. A judge had previously ordered the eviction, even though Maricarmen, who was confined to a wheelchair, had always paid her rent on time and had gone to court several times. Background: a legal trick by the real estate company Urbagestión. The original rental agreement was signed by Maricarmen's father during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. When he died, the mother had to sign a new contract sign because women were not legally competent during the Franco era. After her death, this contract was transferred to Maricarmen. The company that had bought the apartment now disputed its validity. In order to oust Maricarmen, it increased the rent from 500 to 2,650 euros, which was impossible for the pensioner. In solidarity with the person affected, hundreds of people gathered in front of the apartment - including neighbors and politicians and local celebrities. Many of them had camped in front of the house that night. An anonymous donor even offered to pay the increased rent and the existing debts, which Urbagestión refused. The police arrived in the early hours of the morning and then blocked access to the house and then to the entire street the police broke down the front door to gain access to the apartment.Press representatives were expelled from the exclusion zone. (…) Fernando de los Santos, spokesman for the tenants' association, complained on television that it was incomprehensible why so many public resources were being used and such a large police operation was taking place so that a "vulture fund" like Urbagestión could evict a pensioner from her apartment, only to then speculate with the property - "rather, we have to ban all these companies from our cities." Article by Carmela Negrete in the young world from September 24, 2026
The Association of Tenants Associations organizes the first nationwide rent strike in Spain against almost 30,000 apartments belonging to the real estate agency “Alquiler Seguro”
“The trade union federation has announced that it will visit the almost 30,000 apartments managed by Alquiler Seguro throughout the national territory to inform and organize tenants.
The association warns that Alquiler Seguro's business model cannot withstand a strike of this type.
Rental housing prices must be drastically reduced because every 5 to 7 years we are forced to pay more than €4,000 and it is foreseeable that this amount will continue to rise.
The Federation of Tenants' Associations has announced that it will launch a campaign to organize a rent strike against the real estate group Alquiler Seguro, which it accuses of "systematic and structural" practices that violate the law.
The campaign follows years of conflict, complaints and lawsuits. The organization states unequivocally: "We cannot wait any longer. We are fed up with the illegal fees, the imposition of insurance and the obligation to use service providers from the same group of companies, the lack of maintenance and dozens of abuses such as charging up to 200 euros to view an apartment."
As a first step, the Association of Tenants' Associations has announced that it will visit the almost 30,000 apartments managed by Alquiler Seguro throughout the national territory to inform and organize tenants. According to her, hundreds of families have already organized themselves, many of whom are affected and have turned to the unions on their own initiative: "They are tenants who called us after years of abuse. People have had enough and want to take action."
The main demands concern the recovery of the stolen money, but this fight is not only for the tenants of “Alquiler Seguro”, but also to combat the increasing costs of access to rental housing: “Every five to seven years we are forced to pay more than €4,000 to move into a rental apartment, and the costs continue to rise.” (…)
The Association of Tenants' Associations is an association of tenants' associations from more than a dozen cities and regions of the country (Catalonia, Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville, Málaga, Ibiza, Cádiz, Asturias, Vigo, Guadalajara, Segovia…) that coordinates common strategies to defend the right to housing.
The association was founded last year as a coordination platform for the tenant movement at the state level and aims to promote joint campaigns against abuses in the rental market, promote the collective organization of tenants and serve as an instrument to expand local conflicts to the state level.
The campaign against “Alquiler Seguro” has also been joined by the Housing Union of Murcia, LAB Etxebizitza (Basque Country), the Housing Union of Carolines (Alicante) and Derecho al Techo (Gran Canaria)..” SpanishReport from April 7th, 2026 in Tercera Información (machine translated)
Housing crisis in Barcelona: The bouncers. How private companies are clearing out apartments in Spain - and fishing on the right edge
"A stately Art Nouveau corner house in the Eixample district of Barcelona, not far from Plaça Catalunya. Next door to the Gambian honorary consulate, several law offices and a facelift massage studio is an office that at first glance could pass for another law firm. But this one not only interprets the law, it also takes action. "What we do is necessary because the regular route in Spain is so slow," says Jorge Sorbera, lawyer and founder of “Okupas Fuera”, an eviction company that specializes in squatted houses and apartments, turns them on when they have problems with squatted apartments. They resort to them to avoid the lengthy process of going to court, says Sorbera. “We would put pressure on the squatters to leave the apartment more quickly,” he claims simple as its name: squatters (“okupas”) out (“fuera”). How the employees persuade the unwanted residents to leave depends on the case, says the boss. “It's about mediating between the two sides,” he explains and emphasizes: “Our methods are completely legal.” (…) However, established tenants are also repeatedly driven into the muscular arms of the eviction companies. (…) This usually happens when trying to clear out an entire block of flats in order to set up lucrative holiday apartments there, for example."The landlords start throwing some people out, then they send these tough guys who try to intimidate them until they leave their apartment out of fear." Tenants who have a valid contract are also often affected by this. (…) Even if some companies present themselves as smart mediators between the conflicting parties, they are also publicly warned against them. It was only in February that the Spanish House of Representatives voted on the left-wing Podemos party's proposal to ban the clearance companies, but this was rejected. Podemos Secretary General Ione Belarra spoke of “paramilitary, fascist and violent organizations” in this context. The left-wing online medium “Sistema 161” found that there are connections between Spanish eviction companies and the right-wing extremist milieu. “Fascist militancy” can be proven in more than 40 percent of these companies. If you expand the question to include people who are committed to ultra-right positions or organizations such as the Vox party, more than half of the 50 companies surveyed for the research are affected. (…) Mario also makes no secret of where he stands politically. He has been a Vox voter since day one. Migration is one of Spain's main problems, he explains the next day on the way to his current case. "Out with all the criminal immigrants, and if you move around someone else's house, you should be thrown out too," it's that simple. "Both are mostly foreigners." Actually, he thinks you should have the right to shoot at intruders. But that is just his private opinion, not that of the company.Would he also be of this opinion if he didn't do this job? He thinks: "No, probably not that extreme." (…) "The Desokupa phenomenon is extremely dangerous," says rental activist Carme Arcarazo. "A concentrated power is being created that displays a kind of vigilante justice and evades any public control." Article by Frida Nsonde from August 27, 2025 in New Germany online
Spain: “We are now seeing that the funds are getting scared.” Families in Madrid and Barcelona went on rent strike - with success.
In theInterview by Carmela Negrete in the young world from May 9, 2025 Fernando de los Santos Menéndez from the Madrid Tenants Syndicate reports on the tenant strike:"In Barcelona there are dozens who have stopped paying their rent to the La Caixa bank. Here in Madrid, several tenants of Nestar-Azora, one of the three major landlords in Spain, have joined the strike. They have stopped paying the community costs, property tax and default insurance. There are also many other residents from different buildings who have organized themselves. We want to introduce them to the idea of the tenant strike. (…) We are preparing strikes against companies like Blackstone and others. We are currently thinking about how we as a collective can make this legally possible for private landlords. For example, it would be conceivable to call a strike because of defects in an apartment that is not in a habitable condition - or perhaps even a general rent strike at the national level against these rent prices that we can no longer pay - at the moment they are around 60 percent of our salary. We are working on the necessary organization of people and collecting donations for a solidarity fund Caixa or Blackstone, we see that they are building abusive clauses into their contracts. The problem is that they are using their power to exploit isolated, frightened neighbors who don't know how to challenge it. But if we visit these buildings and organize them, those affected can organize themselves with the support of the syndicate and their neighborhood - and then they can defend themselves against these abuses (…) We have one like this The case was won and a trial is currently underway in Madrid.(…) Ownership is increasingly concentrated in a few hands. (…) They are accumulating more and more property, but we now see that they are becoming afraid. In some cases they withdraw because they know that if they buy a building they could run into an organized bloc and the tenant syndicate. These people will defend themselves, not pay attention to unfair terms and not pay.”
Hundreds of thousands in more than 40 Spanish cities against the housing industry, in Madrid alone over 150,000 people defy police violence and protest on April 10th. further
- Tenant power on the streets: Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting nationwide for affordable housing. The situation is particularly dramatic in large cities and on the coast
  "The tenant movement in Spain is showing strength. On Saturday, hundreds of thousands protested in more than 40 cities across the country under the motto "Let's end the housing business." Holding their keys in the air, they demanded an end to forced evictions and the ever-increasing housing shortage in Madrid, for example. While the organizers assume there will be 100,000 participants in the capital, the authorities are talking about around 15,000. According to the Tenants' union 100,000 people take to the streets for the right to affordable and good housing.
  In Madrid, Valeria Racu, spokeswoman for the tenants' union, described the mobilization as the beginning of the end of a "parasitic system that is eating up the salaries and futures" of millions of Spaniards. “Never again will we leave our neighborhoods and cities, never again will we allow ourselves to be driven out.” Racu also criticized the inaction of those in power (…)
  It was the first time since the economic crisis of 2008, when the housing bubble burst, that so many people took to the streets in Spain demanding the right to housing. There were already mass protests in several cities last year. (…)
  Since December, concerns about housing have officially been the top priority for Spaniards. This was the result of a survey by the CIS statistics office. No wonder, as rental prices rose by a national average of 58 percent between 2015 and 2023. Incomes have not kept pace with such increases in prices for a long time. By 2022 they would have increased by an average of around 17 percent. This just corresponds to the price increases caused by inflation. In Spain, the majority of apartments are rented for a limited period of time. The result is often steep rent increases as soon as a new contract is drawn up. In addition, Spain is one of the countries in Europe where there are extremely few publicly owned apartments. (…)
  According to the Observatorio del Alquiler, residents of the Community of Madrid spent an average of 36 percent of their income on rent last year. As a result, more and more young adults are living with their parents for long periods of time; Today it is two out of three of 18 to 34 year olds. And the number of evictions is also increasing. As the Consejo Regional del Poder Judicial indicates, the number of evictions carried out in Spain in 2024 of people who could not pay their rent increased by 4.5 percent. People were forcibly thrown out of their homes a total of 27,564 times.”Article by Frederic Schnatterer, Madrid, in Junge Weltn from April 8th, 2025 with 3 photos
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- “Let's continue to make history every day. This Thursday, massive vigils in 17 neighborhoods of Madrid
  There may be more in the coming days, pay attention to our networks! Come and bring all your neighbors with you!“ SpanishTweet from Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid from April 7th.
- “Communiqué from the Madrid housing movement in response to the repression on Saturday at the demonstration
  Our solidarity is in the face of repression“ SpanishTweet from Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid from April 7th. with video of police violence and the graphic of the statement
“Stop the housing industry”: On Saturday, April 5th, there will be demonstrations in 40 cities in Spain for the right to housing and, among other things, a reduction in rents by 50%
- The first nationwide demonstration for the right to housing has been scheduled for April 5th.
  “On April 5, cities across Spain will take to the streets under the slogan “End Housing,” called for by dozens of housing movement organizations in Spain. Tenants' associations from all over Spain call on you to take part in the mobilization next Saturday, April 5th. After the massive housing rights demonstrations that took place in the country's major cities this fall, we are going one step further on April 5, taking to the streets in dozens of cities simultaneously to strike a single blow.
  Exorbitant rental prices are the main cause of the impoverishment of the working class and a barrier to access to housing. The enrichment of a small rentier minority at the expense of the economic suffocation of a large part of society, the impunity with which real estate bosses operate, and the impossibility of realizing life projects because there is no stable access to housing have sparked social outrage and consolidated the consensus that housing can no longer be a business but must become a right. In tourist cities the situation is even more serious: seasonal rentals and the tourism model drive women out of their neighborhoods and make workers in this sector unsafe… With governments protecting the interests of real estate and tourism bosses, the tenants' union is growing in the country's main cities. Only a grassroots union organization can overthrow the rentier system that maintains the current housing model. In recent years a network of trade unions has been formed in Madrid, Barcelona, Vigo, Asturias, Cádiz, Málaga, Seville, Zaragoza and Ibiza…” span.Communication from the Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid dated 06/03/2025 (machine translated)
- “40 cities will take to the streets on April 5th
  Next Saturday we will march together in 40 cities across the country to end the housing deal
  Only through rent strikes and our union organization will we be able to lower rents.” SpanishTweet from Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid on March 31, 2025
- The CGT is calling for people to join other organizations in the decentralized mobilizations against the housing industry on April 5th.
  “The anarcho-syndicalist organization, together with other social and trade union groups, defends the right to adequate housing for all working class people without exception. The General Confederation of Trade Unions (CGT) agreed to participate and support these mobilizations together with other organizations - Tenants' Confederation, CIG Galiza, Confederación Intersindical, CUT Galiza, Intersindical Valenciana, ELA, LAB, CNT, CUT Aragón, SI Madrid, SL Catalunya, IAC and SAT Andalucía.
  In this sense, the CGT considers that the way in which the “vulture funds” protected by current legislation are driving working people away from their traditional habitats, such as: B. from their neighborhoods - where entire families have lived for generations - and the areas become another business in which the great wealth of a handful of people and companies plunges thousands of completely defenseless and vulnerable people into despair and misery. The CGT points out that these polluters are making the living conditions of the working classes increasingly precarious. That is why the red-black union has called on all its members and, in general, all citizens to support these mobilizations on Saturday April 5th, as well as all the actions and activities that will be carried out to denounce this unjust situation and try to change it…” span.Call from the CGT on March 3, 2025 (machine translated)
- Demonstration: “Stop the housing industry”
  “Decentralized State Demonstration on Saturday 5th April 2025: The CGT, together with many other unions from various areas, supports the decentralized state mobilization on April 5th to end the housing industry. There are already 40 cities that will demonstrate together for an end to the housing industry.
  The demands are clear: A reduction in rents by 50%. Current prices are unsustainable and are crushing millions of people. We need an immediate reduction in prices and permanent rental contracts. Every 5 to 7 years we are forced out of our homes to raise rents, resulting in thousands of invisible evictions. We need permanent contracts in order to be able to develop life projects in our homes. Recovery of vacant, tourist and seasonal rental apartments. While there is talk of a housing shortage, hundreds of thousands of homes are being used for purposes other than permanent housing. We have to win them back so that they fulfill a social function. No more speculative buying. Housing should not be an investment. It must be forbidden to buy apartments if you don't live in them, regardless of whether they are vulture funds or individual tenants. Dismantling eviction groups. More and more landlords are resorting to groups of thugs to force and threaten us out of our apartments. These violent practices must be banned. The CGT has always championed the right to adequate housing in reasonable conditions for all working class people, whether they have “papers” or not. Exorbitant rental prices are the main cause of the impoverishment of the working class and a barrier to access to housing…” span.CGT report dated April 1, 2025 (machine translated)
Fight for decent housing: A network of autonomous housing unions in the Basque Country called for a large demonstration in Bilbao on December 14, 2024
"Around 8,000 people gathered in Bilbao on December 14th, 2024 for a Basque Country-wide demonstration to demand "decent, affordable housing for everyone". The call was made by a network of autonomous housing unions, supported by 200 social initiatives and unions from all over the Basque Country. Measures were called for to reduce the purchase and rental prices of apartments and to provide unused and unused housing for disadvantaged classes To provide tourism apartments.
A new type of autonomous union (politically independent) has developed into an important factor since the pandemic in the fight for the right to housing and against speculation, tourist housing, forced evictions and a completely misguided housing policy. (…)
The network of autonomous housing unions (also called tenant initiatives), which now exist in many cities in view of the serious housing problems, called for Basque Country-wide mobilization. These are not unions in the traditional sense, but rather grassroots initiatives by people who are affected by the devastating situation on the housing market due to unaffordability, racism, sexism or forced evictions. What is characteristic of this young social movement is the close cooperation between locals and migrants.
The social distribution of actually existing apartments and real estate has become one of the main reasons for political and social conflicts throughout the Spanish state this year. Demonstrations against rising prices and a lack of supply due to the conversion into tourist apartments began in the Canary Islands and Mallorca, continued in Barcelona and Madrid and are spreading more and more. At noon on Saturday, an hour before the start of the march in Bilbao, two speakers from the organizing groups, Ane Salvador from the Network of Basque Housing Unions EHESS (Euskal Herriko Etxebizitza Sindikatuen Sarea) and Karla Pisano from the Socialist Housing Union (SSV), explained the reasons for the mobilization at a press conference on the street. (…) Together, the demonstrators demanded that the housing industry, which today only benefits construction companies, speculators, multiple owners and banks, must take a completely new course. Because at the same time the working class is becoming increasingly impoverished. The proportion of family or individual income that has to be paid for rent or purchase credit often exceeds 50% (or more), so there is hardly anything left to live on. The right to a roof over one's head falls by the wayside, and more and more tenants become insolvent and are evicted or homeless. (…) According to the organizers of the demonstration, a total of 70,000 apartments are empty in the Basque Country, while another 9,000 are used for tourist purposes and are therefore withdrawn from the local housing market.“There has always been a section of the working class that has been forced out of their homes, what is happening at the moment is anything but a current problem,” said the organizers. At the final rally, the tenants' unions emphasized that the problem was not a lack of apartments, but rather the interest in profit in this market segment. Although the right to a roof is considered a basic right, real estate is a source of profit for the ruling class. Governments' purported attempts to address the problem ultimately only serve the interests of the real estate industry and homeowners. "This is not a temporary problem, a momentary flaw in the system caused by the greed of a few speculators. In a society based on profit and private property, a part of the population is always systematically excluded." (…) The third contribution to the final rally was about discrimination against women and migrants. When they “finally” arrive in the Basque Country, migrants “have to deal with a legal, police and institutional system that views and treats them as illegal persons. They have to accept substandard apartments and sometimes live in sublets with room contracts,” complained Fape Fall, a Senegalese living in Pamplona from the Haritu support network, during the closing speeches in front of the Arriaga Theater. (…) The last stop on the demo route was the luxury hotel on Arriaga Square, which was financed with Zionist capital; thematically, the connection between mass tourism and the Israeli genocide in Palestine was established.The banner with the inscription “Turistifikazioaren kontra borrokatu – Negocio hotelero para financiar un genocidio” (Fight against touristification – hotel business to finance genocide) was greeted with much applause by the passing demonstration…” Report from December 15, 2024 at baskultur.info (“Fight for decent housing – large demonstration in Bilbao”) with some photos, see anotherPhoto series from the Txeng photo archive on Flickr
Tenants against funds. Large demonstration and tenant strike in Madrid: Around 900 families refuse to pay disproportionate demands from investment funds
"That was just the beginning. According to the organizers, 150,000 people demonstrated in Madrid on Sunday for the right to affordable housing. Under the motto "Enough, let's lower the rents!" the protest will continue over the next three weeks on several days in various places in the city. The aim is to reduce rents by an average of around 50 percent. That seems like a lot, but the rent increases in recent years in major Spanish cities have been significantly higher, as there are hardly any laws to date The demonstration could regulate the increases. A slogan of the demonstration was: "Madrid will be the grave of rentier capitalism." Around 40 organizations had called for it, including the communist-affiliated CCOO, the Platform of Mortgage Affected People (PAH) and environmental organizations such as Ecologistas en Acción. At the same time, a so-called tenants' strike has been taking place in the capital since June. Around 900 families who live in 42 apartment blocks that belong to the investment fund have been taking part Nestar-Azora in Madrid explained in a report in the daily newspaper El Salto, the tenants refuse to pay the disproportionate conditions that the landlord demands from them, for example rent loss insurance, community costs or selective repairs to the building. With the strike, the tenants' union Sindicato de Inquilinas is calling on the government to "take measures that protect the right to adequate and affordable housing."The union's spokeswoman, Valeria Racu, said at the start of the demonstration on Sunday in Madrid: "If you continue to raise prices, we will no longer pay them, and there will be no police, no courts and no securities that can evict us all." There should be a complete rent strike if the government does not act. The rent strike already has a long tradition in Spain: in 1931, around 90,000 families from Barcelona went on strike and initially stopped paying rent. (…) The union also demands that the stock of public housing be increased. The state had saved the banks from collapse by buying houses whose mortgage borrowers could no longer pay them. But so far no government - not even the one led by the Social Democrats - has shown any interest in making these apartments available as stock for social housing. Instead, they continue to be sold to investment funds, which activists call “predator funds,” which then charge high rents…” Article by Carmela Negrete in the young world from October 14, 2024 , see also:
- Madrid: “It’s enough, let’s lower the rents!”
  “On Sunday, tens of thousands took to the streets in Spain to demand the right to affordable housing. In Madrid, the demonstration was held under the slogan “Enough is enough, let’s lower the rents!” The demonstrators are demanding that rents be reduced by 50 percent. The protest is also directed against the increasing number of forced evictions. Around 40 organizations called, including the CCOO union, the Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages (PAH) and environmental organizations such as Ecologistas en Acción. According to the organizers, up to 150,000 people took part. The government only named 22,000! There were also protests in Barcelona, especially against overtourism and rent increases.”Short message from October 14th, 2024 in the Rote-Fahne-News
Spain: “Housing is a right and not a business.” Tenant initiatives are planning a large demonstration in Madrid against skyrocketing prices
"Spain is a country of solidarity, and most of the rental housing stock belongs to private owners or small owners," said the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, recently in an appeal to landlords in the face of skyrocketing rents. For everyone who is fighting against rent usury in the country, this was the declaration of bankruptcy by the self-proclaimed "most progressive government" in Spanish history. The "tenants' union" speaks of the "last straw." Fasses, of anger and frustration." The initiative calls for the resignation of the Social Democratic minister because she does not bring about an effective regulation to limit the price increase. The housing law of February 2022 was a "shock in the water." The "tenants' union" is calling for a demonstration in the capital Madrid on October 13th. explains an activist in a video call. “Housing is a right and not a business,” is the motto of the event, which refers to the constitution, which guarantees everyone a “decent apartment.” This also refers to other large demonstrations in Barcelona, Malaga and Tenerife, where there were protests in Valencia. to close all 17,000 official tourist apartments in the city and take action against the countless illegal holiday apartments.The next stage of protest is a “rent strike” if the dire situation does not change. 900 families have already gone on a limited strike. Since September, they have no longer paid the "illegal" rent increases demanded of them by the Nestar-Azora real estate fund. Social housing that was sold to the fund by the regional government is also affected by increases of between 150 and 700 euros per month. The situation in Madrid is particularly precarious, as economist Julen Bollain also points out: "Renting an apartment in Madrid costs an average of around 1,600 euros per month for 80 square meters." However, the most frequently paid wage is 1,300 euros, adds the professor at the University of Mondragón. The minimum wage of 1,134 euros is not even enough for 60 square meters. The student María Martínez, on the other hand, reports that in Madrid they charge 500 euros even for “storage rooms” that can barely fit a bed. In one case she was offered a kitchen pantry…” Article by Ralf Streck from October 6, 2024 in Neues Deutschland online
“No income, no pension” by Martin Ling on March 31, 2020 in new Germany online comments on this action in relation to the government’s actions: “…The coronavirus has hit Spain hard. As of this week, only those who produce for essential needs are allowed to go to work. That's why the tenants' strike has a clear goal: in times of need, the state must stand by those who find themselves in dire straits through no fault of their own. The Social Democratic government's previous proposal is not enough: to defer the next four rents. This only increases the debt burden. More personal bankruptcies are inevitable. Anyone who can take on bank debts must also take on rent debts. It's that simple...”

“Colectivos de vivienda convocan una huelga de alquileres a partir del 1 de April” on April 2nd, 2020 at kaosenlared reports on the reactions of the organizations calling for a rent strike to the government's emergency measures on March 31st: These are certainly viewed as “slight improvements” - but by no means sufficient to solve the social and financial problems.

“Huelga de alquiler” is the website of the rent strike campaign, which also contains numerous documents that, among other things, summarize the situation of tenants in the country and provide further reasons for the action.

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