The ministers of the PSOE and Sumar continue negotiations at the Moncloa to finalize the details of the agreement. The Council of Ministers was scheduled to start at 9.30, but it is being delayed. Sources from Sumar reported early in the morning that the negotiations have continued throughout the night. Yesterday the minority partner sent a proposal to the PSOE with a new draft that contemplates, among other measures, the inclusion of the regulation of room rental; automatic renewal of contracts; and strengthen protection against evictions. Furthermore, Junts has threatened to withdraw from the agreement, accusing the Executive of having moved away from the pact reached in recent days. The Executive assumes that the decree will not completely satisfy anyone, but the important thing is that it be validated within a few weeks. Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters wake up this Tuesday in Puerta del Sol after a third night of camping to pressure the Government to respond to the housing crisis.
The rent in Salamanca is drowning between squeezing university students, tourism and greed: “The problem is the landlords who speculate”
A prominent attribute in an advertisement for a room for rent in Salamanca is: “Decent home (Rara avis)”. Contacting and asking about that rare bird entails this response: “I have been rented 14 times and I have seen everything; it was decent because it provided any normal thing that the apartment needed without a problem.” Others allude to the proximity to the universities, this one to the bathrooms, that one to the good vibes of the tenants, but very few to the price: only four of the 17 rooms offered on various notice boards at the Faculty of Law. It seems that they don't like to talk about money, like artists, but when you ask the tenants there are complaints: those who speculate with housing and put their houses up for auction to squeeze those interested. The city has 146,000 residents and another 20,000 foreign students reside there each year, a housing challenge fueled by thriving, frugal and profitable tourism. The Assembly of Charro Tenants denounces the “greed” and “speculation” of landlords, magicians of robbery: old houses, no renovations, missing deposits, jugglers of temporary contracts and aces at avoiding legislation.
About thirty people camp in the Plaza de España in Palma
Around a dozen tents and around thirty people have set up in an improvised camp organized in the Plaza de España in Palma. The participants started this protest camp on Monday night, after the concentration that the Union of Llogaters of Mallorca organized in the afternoon in the town hall square to protest the eviction last week of Maricarmen and which was attended by hundreds of people. A few hours before, the Habitatge Coordinator of the Balearic Islands gathered around twenty people in the Plaza de España in an informative assembly to decide on actions aimed at putting pressure on public administrations to guarantee access to housing. The members of the coordinator initially ruled out camping, but a group of activists decided to continue with the mobilizations by setting up tents, in which they spent the entire night.
Twenty tents to protest the housing crisis in Malaga
About twenty tents remain installed in the Plaza de la Constitución, in the center of Malaga, after between 2,000 and 3,000 people demonstrated last night for housing. Promoted by the Malaga Tenants Union and the platform A roof for rights, the protest was called in front of the city hall, but later became a march that reached the heart of the capital while chanting slogans such as “Investors are the invaders”, “Vulture funds out of our neighborhoods” or “Málaga to live, not to survive”. The police tried to prevent the attendees from setting up tents, but the officers later withdrew and the camp spread out little by little. "There are many Maricarmen. We are seeing evictions every day and this has to stop," said yesterday Carmela Olmedo, spokesperson for the Malaga Tenants' Union. "It is unacceptable that there are women and families on the streets, with no alternative. The ground is fertile for speculators to turn our homes into businesses," he stressed. The province of Malaga was the one that received the most launch requests during 2025 in all of Andalusia. There were 2,253, of which 1,264 were executed, according to data from the General Council of the Judiciary.
Almeida, on the agreement for the return of Maricarmen: “The two parties trusted that the only Government that could achieve this is that of the Madrid City Council”
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida (PP), referred this morning to the agreement reached yesterday by the Urba Gestión company and the representatives of Maricarmen for the 87-year-old woman to return home with a new rental. “The two parties trusted that the only Government that could achieve this is the Government of the Madrid City Council,” Almeida said from the Cibeles Palace, minutes before the month's ordinary plenary session. The Madrid City Council acted, through the municipal housing company, as a mediator in the negotiation of the agreement, at the request of the owners. And the mayor has attacked the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and has praised the actions of the Executive he leads: "This city council is going to be in the solution. Others are in the riots and the banners." While he was saying these words, hundreds of people were waking up after the third night of camping in Sol. Asked about the peaceful protest, Almeida asked again, as he did yesterday, that “the camping should be lifted immediately.” “If they are so brave, let them go to La Moncloa,” he appealed directly to the protesters.
Yolanda Díaz demands a decree “at the height of the factory of inequality that is housing”
While PSOE and Sumar finalize the negotiations of the housing decree before the meeting of the Council of Ministers that plans to approve it, Vice President Yolanda Díaz has contributed to the pressure that leaders of her group are exerting in different media from the first hour with a message on social networks. "We continue negotiating to have the agreement that our country needs. We need a social shield against speculation with the regulation of seasonal and room rentals and rental renewals within. A decree at the height of the factory of inequality that housing is today," he wrote in Bluesky.
The Huesca Citizen Housing Platform calls for a rally this Tuesday
The Citizen Housing Platform of Huesca calls for a rally this Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. in Plaza Cervantes in the Alto Aragonese capital, under the motto For all the Maricarmen: We demand emergency measures and structural measures. “It is necessary to get together, analyze, debate and encourage and build together a social movement capable of dragging the public powers to change once and for all this extreme social injustice, such as the scarcity of a basic good for life”, since it considers that “it is necessary to act”, this group has indicated. To this, they add that "people are not going to stop taking to the streets" and it is because "if the Government of Spain does not take measures, it is digging its own grave."
