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Spain protests: Evicted 87-year-old woman to return to Madrid home

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The real estate firm backs down and restores her old rent after mass protests over Spain's housing crisis.

What the coverage shows

Most outlets frame the story as a housing-crisis protest triggered by the eviction of an 87-year-old woman, with NPR and Democracy Now! emphasizing the marches and encampment in Madrid and Reuters, BBC News, the Guardian and SCMP focusing on the government’s response. Channel 4 News and Al Jazeera’s later item are the only extracts that clearly foreground her return home, while Al Jazeera’s earlier piece is the outlier, shifting away from the eviction to the broader housing squeeze. Only Democracy Now! explicitly says the apartment building was bought by an investment fund and that her rent more than tripled.

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