Tens of Thousands March in Madrid Over a Long-Time Resident's Eviction

Tens of thousands marched through Madrid on Saturday to protest the eviction of María del Carmen Abascal from the apartment in the upscale Retiro neighbourhood where she had lived for more than seven decades. Deutsche Welle describes the housing shortage in many major European urban centres as an explosive social issue.

A single tenancy of seventy years is not a statistic; it is exactly the kind of case that turns a housing squeeze into a crowd. Supply arguments are abstract. A named person's front door is not.