Images of María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, being evicted from her home in Madrid have become the latest symbol of Spain’s housing crisis.

The 87-year-old woman had been renting the property for around 70 years. According to the Madrid Tenants’ Union, following a change of ownership there was a proposed rent increase from about 500 euros to 2,650 euros a month, later reduced to 1,650.

After several attempts to halt the process, Maricarmen was evicted and later taken to hospital. The case triggered protests that quickly spread beyond Madrid.

But the scale of the reaction is hard to understand if you look only at this isolated…

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