The PSOE and Sumar ministers most involved in the housing decree, in particular Isabel Rodríguez, from Housing, who is leading the negotiation, and Ernest Urtasun, from Culture, are already in La Moncloa finalizing the details of the agreement. The Council of Ministers is scheduled at 9:30 but it is possible that it will be delayed until the agreement is closed, as at other times. 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.
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.
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 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.
About fifty people have camped tonight in the area known in Seville as Las Setas, the same space that hosted the 15-M protests and that brings together most of the citizen movements. "We can't take it anymore. I'm a student and I pay 400 euros for a room in an apartment shared with four other people," says María José Saavedra, a resident of Córdoba and enrolled in Environmental Sciences this year in Seville. She, like other neighbors, joined the protests this morning, although she did not spend the night in the square.
