About 50 marches took place across Spanish cities including Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona on Saturday 3 October 2026, with tens of thousands demanding lower rents, an end to evictions, and a ban on investment funds buying residential property. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's emergency housing bill was defeated in Congress on Friday, and clashes broke out in Valencia between protesters and police near a real estate summit, with nine officers injured and five people arrested. Madrid's Tenants' Union estimated 500,000 marchers in the capital; city officials put the figure at 70,000.
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