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Housing

Portrait of an elderly couple facing eviction at sunrise

11 January 2022

Jose (or Pepe, as he's affectionately known), 78, tells me about when he met María, 82. "I used to work in a bar and that's where I met María. She'd come in to see me and we chatted for a few months. Fifty-five years later, here we are, being evicted from the house we've called home ever since we got married."

Culture

The battle for Baobab

10 January 2020

Yesterday, the people of Madrid make their thoughts crystal clear: don't evict Baobab! So far, this emotive Instagram post has been shared by 2,793 people in their stories, and viewed by 32,557. To put things in perspective, that's about 10 times more people than my average Madrid No Frills Instagram posts.

Spain’s struggle with gentrification, tourism and globalisation

23 August 2019

Spain's first McDonald's opened in 1981, replacing an old jeweller's on Gran Vía. Many predicted that this gran hamburguesería would be the beginning of the end of Madrid as we knew it. And they were right.

Housing

Madrid’s anti-eviction warriors

18 January 2019

I’d heard on the radio that there was going to be an eviction at 11 am, just a five-minute walk from where I lived. I turned on TeleMadrid and their cameras were already there. I put on my coat, grabbed my camera and said to my other half, “look out for me on the TV”.