Mallorca's housing crisis: "We are avoiding social conflict, but the fuse is getting shorter"
"We also have to consider the responsibility of Mallorcan society, which wants to get more at any price."
Organisers of the first large protest in Mallorca in 2024 warn that the housing situation has got worse
"And now? We are even worse off. Rents are skyrocketing, people are being expelled."
Sencelles, Mallorca
Sencelles, where the number of holiday rental homes has more than doubled over the past ten years.
Housing in Mallorca and the concerns for social conflict
A message of a video by a group of residents in Sencelles was: "They are throwing us out of our homes, out of our town and eventually out of Mallorca."
The squatters of a guest house in Mallorca who have terrorised the owners
A Spanish couple were offered accommodation in exchange for work. After two months, they stopped working and had no intention of leaving.
School bus driver charged after running over a student
A 16-year-old girl is in intensive care at Son Espases Hospital.
Man dies in bonfire accident in Sencelles
Guillem Llabrés was a councillor at Sencelles town hall.
Police at the scene of an accident in Mallorca
Police at the scene.
Sencelles
Sencelles
Leaving for the mainland: The Mallorca residents who can no longer afford the island
Removals firms point to an exodus of people from Mallorca. They are leaving because of the price of housing.
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Comment
Sencelles and its points of difference
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Andrew Ede01/02/2022 12:27