‘Now is the moment’: housing activists at Madrid encampment pin wary hopes on Spain’s early election

“‘Now is the moment’: housing activists at Madrid encampment pin wary hopes on Spain’s early election”

Campaigners set up in more than 1,200 tents in Puerto del Sol square say challenge now is to translate a groundswell of public support into concrete change At a makeshift lunch counter tucked within a maze of tents at a housing protest camp in Madrid, Sélpide San Luis pointed to the dizzying pace of change. “We built a city in a week,” said the 26-year-old, whose videos documenting day-to-day life at the encampment have attracted tens of thousands of views on social media, as she pointed to the…