Demonstrators rally across Spain to protest against housing crisis | News

Demonstrators have returned to the streets in anger over high housing costs with no relief in sight.

Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in cities across Spain to protest against soaring rents and a lack of affordable homes in a country that enjoys Europe’s fastest economic growth and yet suffers from a housing shortage exacerbated by a tourism boom.

The housing crisis across Europe has hit particularly hard in Spain, where there is a strong tradition of home ownership and scant…