La protección de mi madre

We continue to learn about new cases of housing squatting. Mariano lives with his 14-year-old daughter in a room at his mother’s house. He can’t go back to his bachelor pad because the family with children he rented it to has been declared vulnerable. They even sent him a bill for 2,300 euros for an illegal electricity hookup.

For the past two years, Mariano’s life has become a real nightmare.

After divorcing his wife, he decides to move to the house he bought when he was young. The surprise comes when he talks to the tenants to ask them to leave. «In March 2023, they stopped paying, everything».

On April 13, 2023, the first eviction date was set.

The squatters owe him 18,000 euros.

He continues to pay the mortgage, electricity, and water for a house where he cannot live.

«My mother is my social shield», he says. «An 80-year-old retiree who has worked all her life, who is now spending all her savings to accommodate her son and granddaughter».

He only hopes that one day he can recover his house.