In mid-March 2024, Ramón Salazar (80) and his wife, Carmen Manzano (77), received a letter notifying them that they were going to be evicted within two months. Ramón does dialysis every day. Carmen Manzano can barely walk. They have been living in their apartment in the La Plata neighborhood (Valencia) for 31 years, where they have seen their children and grandchildren grow up. In two months an investment fund will try to evict them.
They admit that they have cried because they have no alternative. If the eviction is carried out, they will be left on the street. The only solution that the social services have offered them during this time is to go to a shelter. The first eviction was scheduled for Friday, April 12, 2024, but the day before, the judge extended the deadline for the eviction to two months.
Their apartment is a humble dwelling, in one of those blocks of flats with exposed brick and green awnings that house workers on the outskirts of cities. Targets, since the pandemic, of the vulture and investment funds, which fly over this type of neighborhoods. The reality of housing evictions with the aim of speculation by vulture funds is increasing in Spain affecting, above all, the most vulnerable people who maintain social rental prices due to the impossibility of assuming the skyrocketing prices.
