The 87-year-old with 50% disability will be able to return home. The agreement now awaits the ratification of Maricarmen itself, according to sources from the Madrid City Council, who acted as a mediator.
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28/09/2026
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Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman with 50% disability, will be able to return home in Madrid, Spain, for a value that should not exceed 30% of her net income.
The woman's family, her lawyer, the Inquirinos Union of Madrid and Urbagestion Desarrollo and Inversion SL, the investment fund owner of the apartment from which it was evicted last Wednesday, reached a consensus, reveals the news agency Efe.
The agreement now awaits the ratification of Maricarmen itself, according to sources of the Madrid City Council, which acted as a mediator.
The meeting between representatives of Maricarmen and Urbagestión Desarrollo and Inversión SL, which took place this afternoon, lasted about four and a half hours – between 17:00 and 9:30 p.m. (local hours).
Maricarmen's eviction provoked a wave of social indignation about the housing situation in Spain, as well as highlighting the housing crisis that thousands of people face in the country. The elderly woman lived for more than 70 years in her apartment in Sáinz de Baranda Street, in the neighborhood of Retiro, where she was evicted last week. The images of the moment you had to leave your home motivated protests that last five days ago.
Hundreds of people are still camped in Puerta del Sol, Madrid, despite the rain and in Barcelona, other protesters are at the door of the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, where Pedro Sánchez, Spanish Prime Minister, attends a prize delivery.
Sánchez assured yesterday that the executive “is working” to bring to the Council of Ministers, on Tuesday, a decree on housing in order to “relieve the housing emergency situation that affects millions of Spaniards”.
[News updated at 9:50 p.m.]