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Crowds of other people stand around them.)    Image source,  Europa Press via Getty Images  Image caption,  Protests have taken place in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Malaga and Cadiz in response to the housing crisis       By Alys Davies  and Guy Hedgecoe ,  Reporting from Madrid     Published 29 September 2026, 13:14 BST        Updated 5 hours ago       Spain's coalition government has approved new housing measures following protests over the country's housing crisis, sparked by the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her home in Madrid last week.  Ministers met on Tuesday to discuss the proposals, which include a ban on evictions until 2030. Announcing the measures, Health Minister Mónica García said they would bring relief to more than five million people - but opposition politician Míriam Nogueras said the agreement left "small landlords out in the cold". The proposals - which have been presented in the form of two decrees - come into effect immediately, but must be approved by Congress within a month, although the government hopes to hold the vote as soon as this Friday.  Pedro Sánchez's leftist coalition government lacks a majority in parliament and has struggled to get right-leaning parties to approve previous decrees. In April, a decree seeking to roll over rental contracts was blocked by right-leaning parties. García, of the Sumar alliance, said other measures agreed upon on Tuesday included the rolling over of contracts until 2028; stricter regulation of short-term and room rentals; and banning the purchase of housing by investment firms. "It is time to intervene in the speculative housing market and start striking a balance between ordinary citizens and vulture funds," García said. Referencing the protests, she added: "Thanks to the mobilisations and the encampments. Without you, this would not have been possible." But Nogueras, spokeswoman for the centre-right Catalan nationalists of Junts party, said: "We all agreed that evictions - where the property is owned by a fund, a vulture fund, run by someone managing millions of euros - obviously need to be stopped. "Lumping together in this category those who have invested their savings in a flat, a restaurant or a property - putting them all in the same basket - is a mistake," she told Spanish public broadcaster RTVE. The minority government, which is made up of the Sánchez's ruling Socialists and junior partner the Sumar alliance, has 30 days from the decrees' publication to reach an agreement in parliament.  Housing Minister Isabel Rodríguez urged political parties to support the decrees after(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6vgy55lm8z1o) the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal last week.  "Congress has the opportunity to tell Maricarmen that her suffering was worth it... and that many people will benefit from her battle", she said. But Valeria Racu, a spokeswoman for the Madrid Tenants' Union, said the battle had "only just begun", and called for more protests across Spain next weekend. "We all have our eyes on the text, on the small print, to make sure this is the Maricarmen decree," added Alicia del Río, another spokeswoman for the organisation.      (Maricarmen Abascal looks away from the camera as she is pushed on a stretcher by medical personnel after being evicted from her apartment in Madrid on 23 September.)    Image source,  Lima/Getty Images  Image caption,  Maricarmen Abascal was evicted from her apartment in Madrid on a stretcher on Wednesday       The two decrees approved by the cabinet contain enough to at least suggest that the government has been listening carefully to the demands of the activists who have been protesting in Madrid, Barcelona and elsewhere in recent days.  The temporary ban on evictions, the rolling over of rental contracts and the ban on investment firms - or "vulture funds" as the government has termed them - buying property are all the kinds of policies that have been discussed by housing activists in recent days. Pablo Bustinduy, minister of social rights, described the measures approved by the cabinet as "a first step towards the economic and social transformation of the country". Bustinduy and his Sumar alliance had entered the negotiations with Sánchez's Socialists determined to take a stand on this issue, which is one they feel strongly about.  Sumar's tough stance was a major reason why talks between the coalition partners on the decrees went down to the wire ahead of Tuesday's cabinet meeting. While the relatively bold new measures may please many on the left, they have raised the hackles of the Junts, whose support is again likely to be needed to approve them.  Junts and other parties on the right tend to be reluctant to intervene in the housing market, particularly if it means tipping the balance of the law in favour of tenants and against landlords, many of who are their natural electorate. The question now is whether the social momentum generated by the Maricarmen Abascal case will override such reservations and manage to ensure this package of measures becomes law.     (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-58310532) The hard men removing squatters in Spain       Published 26 August 2021         (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35077498) Taking back Barcelona's apartments       Published 12 December 2015         (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55231201) 'Sometimes I want to cry': Eviction in a pandemic       Published 14 December 2020             Ahead of the government's announcement on Tuesday, the lawyer for Abascal, who has become a symbol of Spain's housing crisis, said she would be allowed to return to her home after reaching a deal with the company that owns it on Monday. Abascal, who was admitted to hospital after being forcibly removed from the apartment on a stretcher, was unable to attend the meeting and is yet to sign the deal. Abascal's father first rented the flat in 1956 and she had continued to live in it after her parents died, with a cap on the rent, until investment company Urbagestión bought the property in 2018.  It raised the monthly rent to more than her monthly pension, leaving her unable to pay it. Abascal's case is not unique. In the north-eastern city of Zaragoza, another woman's eviction was temporarily suspended on Tuesday, the European Pressphoto Agency reported.  Esmeralda Tejero, 51, has lived in a flat in the city for eight years with her 11-year-old daughter, but stopped paying her rent some time ago as she could not afford it on top of her daily living costs, she told Catalan newspaper el Periódico on Monday. Protests calling for housing relief measures broke out last week in Madrid and have spread to other cities including Barcelona, Seville, Malaga and Cadiz. Thousands marched through the capital on Saturday demanding stronger protection for tenants in the face of a housing shortage and soaring rents. Hundreds of tents have been set up in the famous public square of Puerta del Sol since.      (Blue tarpaulin hangs above dozens of tents in Madrid's Puerta del Sol. Protesters stand around them. A white and red brick building with a clock tower is in the background.)    Image source,  Europa Press via Getty Images  Image caption,  Protesters remained at the tent encampment in Puerta del Sol on Tuesday       The Bank of Spain estimates the country is short of 700,000 homes, based on the gap between demand and new construction. House prices have risen by 12.2% in the past year, according to figures for the second quarter of 2026 from national statistics institute INE. The shortage in rental housing means that costs rose by 8.5% in 2025, according to real estate firm Idealista, with Madrid alone seeing an increase of 9.7% in rents.  It said Barcelona and Madrid were Spain's most expensive cities to rent a home, at €23.80 per square metre and €22.70 per square metre respectively.     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