马德里，9月30日——周三，数千名抗议者在马德里主广场及西班牙其他城市露营，要求议会迅速批准旨在保护租户并遏制该国严重住房危机的新措施。
MADRID, Sept 30 - Thousands of protesters camped out on Madrid's main square and in other Spanish cities demanded on Wednesday that parliament swiftly approve new measures to protect tenants and curb the country's acute housing crisis.
上周，一名87岁的老妇人被赶出居住了七十多年的马德里住所，这一令人震惊的事件点燃了民众的示威浪潮。她的遭遇凸显了各大城市和旅游热点地区长期租户所面临的巨大压力，在这些地方，租金飙升、绅士化改造以及经济适用房短缺已引发了社会和政治动荡。
The demonstrations were ignited last week by the dramatic eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her Madrid home of more than seven decades. Her case highlighted mounting pressure on long-term tenants in major cities and tourist hotspots, where soaring rents, gentrification and a shortage of affordable housing have fuelled social and political unrest.
西班牙左翼少数派政府周二通过了两项法令，包含一系列措施，其中包括禁止在2030年前驱逐弱势租户。但这些措施能否全面实施，取决于议会下院的批准，该院定于周五进行投票。许多活动人士表示，即使是这些措施也远不足以解决危机。
Spain's leftist minority government passed two decrees on Tuesday with a host of measures, including a ban on evictions of vulnerable tenants until 2030, but their full implementation hinges on approval by the fragmented lower house, which is due to hold a vote on Friday. Many activists said even those measures fell short of tackling the crisis.
32岁的制药业工作者胡里奥·戈麦斯（Julio Gomez）告诉路透社：“这还不够——它可能只是一个起点或权宜之计。”他补充说，他愿意在马德里的太阳门广场搭帐篷露营，“直到问题解决为止”。
"It's not enough — it might be a starting point or a stopgap," 32-year-old pharmaceutical worker Julio Gomez told Reuters, adding that he was willing to stay with his tent in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square for "as long as it takes".
其他人则批评政府决定将这些措施拆分为两项法案，并预计其中一项旨在自动延长租约以防止恶意涨租的法案会被右翼微弱多数否决。
Others criticised the government's decision to split the measures into two separate bills with the expectation that one, which automatically extends leases to prevent abusive rent hikes, would be rejected by a slim right-wing majority.
26岁的兽医贡萨洛·桑切斯（Gonzalo Sanchez）说：“他们这样做是为了让其中一项获得通过，而让力度更强的那一项被否决，这只是为了勉强通过一项法案。”
"They've done it so that one gets approved and the stronger one gets rejected, just to sneak one through by the skin of its teeth," said veterinarian Gonzalo Sanchez, 26.
活动人士抗议驱逐行为。组织了最初抗议活动的马德里租户联盟将部分措施形容为“残羹冷炙”，尽管该组织也称政府的举措是社会运动的“历史性胜利”。
ACTIVISTS FIGHT EVICTIONS Madrid's Tenants' Union, which organised the initial protests, described some of the measures as "crumbs", although it also called the government's move a "historic victory" for the social movement.
与此同时，周三在瓦伦西亚附近的布尔哈索特（Burjassot），数十人聚集在一起，抗议驱逐丹尼尔·冈萨雷斯（Daniel Gonzalez）的行为。这位大学教授自2009年以来一直居住在该房屋中。面对抗议活动，法院官员同意将他的驱逐计划至少推迟10天。
Meanwhile, dozens gathered on Wednesday in Burjassot, near Valencia, to block the eviction of Daniel Gonzalez, a university professor who has lived at his home since 2009. Faced with the protest, court officials agreed to postpone his eviction for at least 10 days.
冈萨雷斯表示，尽管房屋的所有权多次易主（由不同的投资基金持有），但他多年来一直按时支付房租。然而，在持续了近十年的法律纠纷之后，法院最终站在了房东一方。
Gonzalez said he has paid rent on time for more than 17 years, despite the property changing hands among investment funds, but after a legal dispute lasting nearly a decade the courts ultimately backed the owner.
上周马德里发生的87岁老人玛丽卡门·阿巴斯卡尔（Maricarmen Abascal）被驱逐的事件引发了公众的强烈抗议，最终她与房东——房地产公司Urbagestion——达成协议，允许她继续居住在公寓中，租金保持不变。虽然她被驱逐后仍住院治疗，但预计将在未来几天内回家。
The public outcry over last week's eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal in Madrid led to a deal with her landlord, property firm Urbagestion, to let her stay in the apartment with unchanged rent. She remains in hospital following the eviction but is expected to return home in the coming days.
Urbagestion公司的联合所有者里卡多·阿隆索（Ricardo Alonso）在接受《El Economista》报纸采访时称，他和他的合伙人在这次驱逐事件中面临了巨大的压力；他们甚至收到过一个装有活蟑螂的包裹作为威胁。
Urbagestion's co-owner, Ricardo Alonso, told newspaper El Economista he and his partner had faced a pressure campaign over the eviction, citing the delivery of a box containing live cockroaches.