# Can Sánchez persuade Spanish voters he is their best hope for fairer housing?

https://mins.news/en/item/91370

- The Guardian, 2026-10-08 12:16 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/08/pedro-sanchez-spanish-voters-housing-crisis-analysis

> The death of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, two weeks after her eviction from her Madrid home, has brought Spain’s housing crisis into sharper focus ahead of a general election at the end of November. The Sánchez government has proposed emergency housing measures, which rightwing and far-right parties rejected, and redrafted them as new decrees. People’s Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo accused Sánchez of claiming the housing mantle too late.

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