This initiative follows years of conflicts, complaints, and legal proceedings. The organization plans to visit the nearly 30,000 properties managed by Alquiler Seguro across Spain to inform and mobilize tenants, who, they claim, already include hundreds of organized families.
We cannot wait any longer. We are fed up with illegal fees, the imposition of insurance and utilities with companies from the same group, lack of maintenance, and dozens of abuses such as charging up to 200 euros to visit a property.
Among the main demands is the recovery of money they consider to have been "swindled." The Confederation emphasizes that this struggle is not limited to Alquiler Seguro tenants but seeks to address the constant increase in housing access prices, noting that every few years, tenants are forced to pay over 4,000 euros to move into a rental property.
The conflict dates back to February 2024, when the Madrid Tenant Union filed a lawsuit and a complaint with the General Directorate of Consumer Affairs for practices such as illegal fee collection and the imposition of abusive clauses. This complaint resulted in a sanction of 3.6 million euros by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, with a final resolution still pending.
Justice is too slow to stop abuses we suffer every day. That is why we have decided to take the initiative.
The strike campaign is conceived as an act of disobedience and direct action against abuses. It will unfold in phases, and the final call for the strike will be debated and approved in tenant assemblies once the initial phase of contacting renters is complete, meaning a start date has not yet been set.
The Confederation, established last year, brings together unions from over a dozen cities and territories, including Catalonia, Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville, Málaga, Ibiza, Cádiz, Asturias, Vigo, Guadalajara, and Segovia. Its goal is to coordinate strategies to defend the right to housing and extend local conflicts to a national scale. The Murcia Housing Union, LAB Etxebizitza (Basque Country), the Carolinas Housing Union (Alicante), and Derecho al Techo (Gran Canaria) have also joined this campaign.
