Spain’s housing rallies RTVE’s regional roundup

Sep 28–Oct 2

RTVE reports housing demonstrations in around ten Spanish cities, then describes Barcelona’s crowd outside Sánchez’s event with contrasting estimates of 20,000 from organizers and 2,000 from police. Its regional roundup visits Seville, recalls an eviction stopped in Asturias, shows support for Rosario at her Toledo lease expiry and describes protest dinners in Cartagena and Palma. The Palma correspondent gives an organizer estimate above 2,500 and explains housing pressures and demands. Local actions and estimates remain distinct, with no enacted nationwide measure announced.

RTVE reports demonstrations in about ten Spanish cities in solidarity with Maricarmen and demanding housing protections. In Barcelona, protesters block Avinguda Diagonal outside the event attended by Sánchez: organizers put attendance at 20,000 and the Guardia Urbana at 2,000. They say they will remain until he leaves. The national package visits Seville, Asturias, Toledo, Cartagena and Palma, including a stopped eviction and local support actions. In Palma, organizers estimate more than 2,500 people at a protest dinner outside city hall. Participants seek indefinite leases, frozen rents, controls on misuse of temporary and room rentals and an end to evictions; the report explains local tourism and affordability pressures. On September 29, Tagesschau reports that protests are continuing that day and shows the Madrid camp and demonstrations in Barcelona and Seville under a message of solidarity with Maricarmen. It cites studies estimating a shortage of more than 700,000 homes. The report connects the mobilization to that day's government measures on speculative purchases and evictions, while stressing that Friday's parliamentary vote still requires support beyond the governing coalition. It supplies no new city-by-city crowd estimates. TV Brasil's September 30 roundup describes thousands protesting in Madrid, the nationwide wave of recent days and continued pressure for a rent freeze and protection against eviction without alternative housing. It says an agreement will allow Maricarmen to return but supplies no completed move. It describes the government's 2030 eviction protection as a proposal and gives no parliamentary result. On October 2 in Congress, Rodríguez says people have taken to streets across Spain and are also near Congress, presents participating social organizations as part of the pressure for an agreement, and credits mobilization after Maricarmen's eviction with accelerating convergence. Belarra thanks recent mass demonstrations and camps across several cities and urges continued organizing for stronger protections. These are direct political responses to the same ongoing wave, without new turnout estimates or a completed general strike.