After right-wing parties blocked vital housing decrees, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap election to challenge the corporate interests devouring working-class lives.
When parliament voted down emergency housing decrees, tens of thousands took to Spain's streets to fight a predatory rental market that sacrifices working families to property speculators.
When corporate landlords dragged Maricarmen Abascal onto a Madrid street, mass street protests forced Spain to ban evictions and confront the predatory vulture funds treating homes as speculative stock.