Housing unions threaten rent and general strikes on march in Madrid

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More than 22,000 people took to the streets of the Spanish capital to demand solutions to a housing crisis that is putting millions at risk of “rent poverty”.  #Madrid #Spain #RentPoverty #CostOfLiving

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00:00So we cannot pay our rent or we have to give so much money to our landlord

00:06that we don't have enough money to live.

00:09So we are saying that we will do a rent strike if needed

00:13because we cannot bear this situation anymore.

00:17So we have to lower the prices by ourselves.

00:21It's the time of the unions, it's the time of the tenants.

00:26The rent strike is going to happen.

00:30I pay over 30% of my salary to rent a room in a shared house.

00:35I'm sick of this.

00:36We can't even make ends meet.

00:38It's outrageous the price we pay to share a half-decent house with my child.

00:42We want regulation of house prices.

00:45We want an end to the speculation on something that should be a right for everyone.

00:49If they don't do something then rent strikes and general strikes are a union tool

00:53that has been used for years.

00:55If the government doesn't change things then we will.

01:00So I'm here in representation of the Federation of Neighbours Associations

01:05and we are here defending the right to housing.

01:08But there are places where things are working like Vienna

01:10so we would like to follow the Viennese model

01:12where there's lots of social housing, affordable for rent.

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