Dwelling: Mobilizations prepare a rental strike

The mobilizations in defense of housing rights were replicated in dozens of cities of the Spanish State. The fight progresses and an upcoming rental strike is glimpsed.

As is happening, a wave of indignation again crossed the Spanish State the 5 of April. Under the common cry that "housing is not a business", thousands mobilized in 42 cities to denounce that rent has become a deadly trap for millions of people. Far from being an isolated fact, These demonstrations express a new cycle of organization and resistance to a system that converts rights into goods.
The call, of which more than 100.000 People in cities like Barcelona and Madrid was promoted by groups by the right to housing, social unions and organizations that denounce the real estate looting to which we are subjected. Rentals reduction is required, Effective market regulation, The end of junk and temporary contracts, The recovery of tourist and empty housing, and the urgent expansion of the Public Rental Park.

From protest to action: The rental strike is encouraged

For many families it is clear that they want to throw them and that it is necessary to organize and resist. The message of the participants and housing unions is clear and is exacerbated by the fact that in 2025 half a million rental contracts overcome. That is why the call to which tenants and tenants not stay at home was launched, to resist and organize for what could become a large -scale rental strike.
In Barcelona, One of the most blunt voices was that of àgueda Amestoy, Tenate on strike against La Caixa with dozens of neighbors in municipalities such as Banyoles or Sitges. They denounce the undercover privatization of protected housing and the complicit silence of the Government. "We are on the rental strike in defense of public housing", he claimed.

The fight is federalized: From Donostia to Malaga, The same cry
Desde Andalucía Hasta Euskal Herria, the demands are replicated: Enough of evictions, Enough of tourist, Enrich enriched in the expense of the living conditions of the working people. In Malaga, more of 30.000 people mobilized under the slogan "from the center to the neighborhoods", pointing out that only the neighbors themselves, precarious and excluded can recover the city. In Vigo, A Coruña and Donostia, The marches demanded to stop the business of vulture funds and declare immediately tensioning areas.
The solution will not come from more public funds for real estate business, but of the struggle organized by background changes, that implies to stop the great benefits of those who profit with a basic right, How are the big housing holders, platforms such as Airbnb or Booking and real estate speculators.

A conflict of interest: Law or business
While housing remains a business that enriches a few, It will never be a right for the great majorities of the working people. The housing emergency is fought on the street, With organization and with a clear horizon. To take note of the fakes that the national and regional governments lead: The people are taking the reins and no longer conforms with empty promises or with laws that are not applied or limited.
The rental strike that is prepared is a legitimate tool in front of the real estate usury, evictions without housing alternative and governments that look the other way. The struggles like those at Casa Orsola, Tribulete 7 o Blackstone blocks show that when the people are organized, It becomes indeshuviable. The right to decent housing does not beg: It is conquered. And as always, It will be in the streets, In the neighborhoods and with collective struggle.

Problems are governments and capitalism
The problem of own and dignified housing is not just Spanish, crudely affects all countries of the European Union and the world. The working families suffer mainly, immigrants and young people who in most cases have to share floor. Although it is not a new problem, The situation of reservoir and the enormous difficulty of accessing their own housing have reached an unsustainable limit.
The fact that it is a drag problem that worsens and that is replicated worldwide has common denominators: the formality of governments and the existence of capitalism. Governments take partial and limited measures to respond in some way to popular claims, But they don't change anything back. Not only should evictions prohibit, limit the price of rentals and offer social rentals, They would also have to execute popular housing plans with easy social access, not on droppers but according to the needs of the great majorities. As with education, health, transport and so many other items, Capitalism makes housing a lucrative business and not an inalienable right. Because, The struggle and organization must have the north of the anti -capitalist struggle to solve the underlying problems and once and for all with a socialist perspective.