Maricarmen Abascal's death and Spain's housing crisis

Tens of thousands of people marched through Madrid to mourn Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old pensioner whose eviction from the home she had lived in for 70 years became a national symbol of Spain's housing crisis. Her death, announced by a union, followed weeks of nationwide protests over affordability and evictions that her case had galvanized. No cause of death has been disclosed. Her death has turned the march into both a tribute and a renewed show of force for the housing protest movement.