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In Spain, hundreds took to the streets to protest against increases in housing rents. teleSUR

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00:00In other news, in Spain, hundreds took to the streets to protest against increases in

00:04housing rents.

00:05Demonstrators marched through downtown Madrid to call for a decrease in rental rates, as

00:10low incomes make it difficult to pay them.

00:12In addition, they detailed that prices are constantly increasing in the cities and coastal

00:16areas of the country, which can affect public services.

00:20On the other hand, visitors and residents expressed their concern about the high cost

00:24and the spread of short-term leases.

00:30The only and very clear message for all governments, both municipal and state, is that today the

00:38housing business is starting to end, it is over that housing is for speculation and we

00:43need them to return to doing something that in reality they have not been, that housing

00:47is for living, it is over that we are in an area like this around Plaza Mercedes where

00:51eight or ten houses are tourist accommodations and not housing.

00:56And that has to end.

01:02Protesters demand the government to end the housing business and urge residents to continue

01:05the fight for fair prices.

01:11Today I think it is a day in which history will be made, 42 cities take to the streets

01:15to put an end to the housing business.

01:19We cannot continue to allow a few have business with our lives, that play with our lives as

01:23if it were a game.

01:26We also consider that the city has seen a new cycle of struggle, that is new, or that

01:30is very strong.

01:34We have gained strength, we have achieved reorganization and we believe that we are

01:38absolutely unstoppable, the first time we are putting a face to the main cause of the

01:42impoverishment of the people.