{"id":50577,"date":"2026-10-08T15:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/thousands-to-march-in-madrid-after-death-of-evicted-pensioner-maricarmen\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:38:12","slug":"thousands-to-march-in-madrid-after-death-of-evicted-pensioner-maricarmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/thousands-to-march-in-madrid-after-death-of-evicted-pensioner-maricarmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands to march in Madrid after death of evicted pensioner Maricarmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rally to remember woman, 87, whose rent battle with investment firm triggered nationwide protests over housing crisis<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people are expected to march through the centre of Madrid on Thursday evening in memory of Mar\u00eda del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/23\/madrid-police-teargas-protesters-disabled-woman-evicted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eviction from her flat in the capital<\/a> a fortnight before her death triggered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/27\/eviction-of-87-year-old-puts-spains-deepening-housing-crisis-in-the-spotlight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mass protests over Spain\u2019s housing crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pensioner, whose flat had been bought by an investment firm that sought to increase her rent by 230%, had become the public face of the crisis before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/07\/maria-del-carmen-abascal-spain-housing-protests-dies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her death in hospital<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/08\/thousands-to-march-in-madrid-after-death-of-evicted-pensioner-maricarmen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rally to remember woman, 87, whose rent battle with investment firm triggered nationwide protests over housing crisis Thousands of people are expected to march through the centre of Madrid on Thursday evening in memory of Mar\u00eda del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her flat in the capital a fortnight before her death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 21:34:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}