Activists begin camping in Barcelona's Plaza de Catalunya against the increase in evictions and rental prices

Several dozen people have started a camping trip today in Barcelona promoted by some housing assemblies and unions. Those gathered set up shop in the afternoon in Plaza de Catalunya, the same place in the city where the indignados of 15-M pitched their tents in 2011.

The protesters have called on the population, through social networks, to join the protest that began in the center of the Catalan capital "in the face of the increase in evictions, the rise in rental prices and the repeated inability to access decent housing."

"This fight must arise from personal self-management and not from any political party or union, it is a class struggle that affects us all transversally," the activists maintain.

The spokesperson for the Sindicat de Llogateres (Tenants' Union), Enric Aragonès, has announced pressure measures for the coming days, but this group has not yet made a call to support a camp that tries to emulate the one started on Saturday night at Madrid's Puerta del Sol, promoted by the Tenants' Union, and in other cities such as Bilbao, Palma or Málaga.

"There are many of us who know that any decree approved by the Government will be totally insufficient and will leave a large part of the population on the sidelines, especially the most precarious," say the organizing groups of the camp in Plaza de Catalunya, who will debate starting tonight whether to maintain the protest. But, in the meantime, activists already warn: "The camping will continue whether the decree is approved or not."