Spain: National Housing Crisis, Evictions

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September 25, 2013. Police removing the door and pushing the refrigerator aside to force their way inside to evict Maria Isabel Rodriguez Romero and her family. They had been living in the public housing apartment for 24 years.

February, 2015. Riot police and housing activists who had taken over a bulldozer and were trying to stop Luisa Gracia Gonzalez and her family from being evicted and their expropriated house being demolished.

February 27, 2015. Diana Sofia Meliton (2) after her family was evicted by police. She is watching an activist who will open up the apartment to let them in again.

December 15, 2014. Mercedes Pincay (50) removing her belongings when cornered by riot police who have come to evict her and her partner, Apolo, 58 and unemployed. They were living in an apartment owned by her sister who stopped making the mortgage payments.

June 24, 2014. Amalio Barrul Gimenez and his family have been evicted. Amalio Barrul Gimenez (41), his pregnant wife Isabel Morales Bachiller (35) and their three children live on a low income, selling goods on the street and receiving benefits. For 18 months they lived in an apartment owned by Bankia Bank; they tried to negotiate a low rent, but the bank insisted on them being evicted.

September 26, 2013. Efren Rodriguez Gonzalez (68) with his 8-year-old granddaughter, Maria Isabel, the day after the family was evicted. With them are activists from the Platform for Mortgage Victims (PAH).

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February 27, 2015. Diana Sofia Meliton (2) after her family was evicted by police. She is watching an activist who will open up the apartment to let them in again.

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In Madrid, the most vulnerable members of society have been hardest hit by the government's austerity measures. State property for social housing agencies which should be providing alternative housing for people in need, is being sold off to private investors.

The report is an exploration of the relationship between people and their homes, seeing how they face up to eviction, and showing the struggle of housing right activists trying to stop them from being evicted.

Andres Kudacki

All the pictures in the exhibition were taken in Madrid, Spain, from 2013 to 2015.