A UN committee has ordered Spain to compensate a single mother and her six children who were forcibly evicted during a housing crisis that saw tens of thousands forced from their homes.
Barcelona's leftwing city council on Monday charged three Spanish banks over a million euros in fines for keeping four apartments empty for more than two years.
The death of an elderly Spanish woman in a fire caused by a candle used for light sparked outrage on Tuesday as a symbol of "energy poverty", a growing threat amid soaring power prices.
Spain's Constitutional Court on Tuesday struck down a regional law which blocked banks from repossessing homes from the most needy families for up to three years, arguing the law was an attack on private property rights.
Nearly 35,000 home foreclosures were carried out last year in Spain, or 95 each day, as families struggled to make mortgage payments despite a rebound in the economy, official data published Thursday showed.
Behind the iron door of a ground floor flat in Madrid's working-class suburb of Vallecas around 30 people have gathered as Veronica Hidalgo announces she will be evicted from her home in 2015.
Madrid's modest football team Rayo Vallecano has comes good on its promise to take care of an 85-year-old woman who was evicted from her home with an exciting new charity initiative.
A Spanish judge has halted a state-run building company’s plans to change the social housing contracts for 185 needy families in Spain’s capital as a means of solving their financial problems.
Spanish police have arrested six people who were trying to stop the eviction of a family with three children, the youngest only 20 days old, from their home in Madrid on Friday.
International NGO Human Rights Watch released a detailed report on Wednesday in which they accuse the Spanish government of taking "insufficient action to alleviate the impact of the housing and debt crisis" for thousands of evicted families.
Police clashed with protesters who burned bins and vehicles in Barcelona on Monday as anger boiled over at the eviction of activists from a well-known squat.
Nearly 50,000 Spanish families lost their homes in 2013, up 11 percent on a year earlier, as the country's economic crisis showed little sign of abating, figures released on Monday show.
At 104, Inocencia Zofío is quite possibly the oldest person in Spain fighting not to be kicked out of her home. Her story has sent shockwaves through Spanish society and proven just how ruthless the country's authorities can be when evicting helpless homeowners and tenants.
Anti-eviction activists blocked Wednesday the entrance to 12 branches of Spain's Banco Popular bank, which they accuse of not doing enough to prevent struggling mortgage holders from losing their homes.
Europe has over 11 million empty properties, 3.4 million of which are in Spain, which is more than enough to house the continent’s homeless population of 4.1 million, a UK newspaper has reported.
A Eurodeputy from Spain's governing Popular Party has labelled "a disgrace" the decision by the European Parliament to give the country's anti-evictions lobby, the PAH, a prize for its work.
Banks seized nearly 40,000 homes in Spain last year due to unpaid mortgages, official data showed Friday, as a sharp economic downturn and record unemployment took its toll.
A man who was facing eviction in Spain was found hanged inside his apartment on Monday, the latest in a string of suicides linked to evictions in the country which is struggling with record unemployment and a double-dip recession, officials said.
A politician from the left-wing Catalan Compromís-Equo group caused a stir in the country's parliament on Wednesday when he performed a mock striptease to protest against Spain's regime of forced home evictions.
