Spain’s government has approved two housing decrees rejected by parliament last week, which prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to call a snap election. The housing package approved Tuesday caps rents, temporarily halts evictions and restricts companies from buying homes. The housing measures follow demonstrations in Barcelona that turned violent as tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest the eviction of an 87-year-old woman, Maricarmen, from her lifelong home in Madrid. This is a woman affected by a possible eviction.

Josefina Alfaro Teruel: “Make no mistake: If that Maricarmen business hadn’t happened and there weren’t so many journalists here, I’d already be out on the f—ing street in the rain. I swear to you.”