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0:04	Report by Melissa Kent

((ANMOD: Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Spain on Saturday. They're angry about rising rents and the number of short-term-rentals like Airbnb. The rallies - organized by housing activists and backed by Spain's labour unions - took place in more than 30 cities across the country.))

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Demonstrators take over Spain's capital

Demanding action against skyrocketing rents

As they march through the streets of Madrid they carry a giant banner 

Tha reads: Let's End the Housing Business  

They also shout out slogans such as ‘Thieving landlords’
 
And “Get Airbnb out of our neighborhoods”

+++ATMO KEYS+++

Some jangle keys - a demonstration of their anger at the lack of affordable housing in Spain

Many say they are being priced out of the market

As landlords and real-estate investors opt for short-term tourist rentals

Over long-term leases for locals

((:43 (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MADRID RESIDENT AND TEACHER DIEGO SERRANO, 28, SAYING: ))
I came because we tenants need to be listened to and it is good to fight a little against what the landlords are doing -- and how they're using their housing.”

((:59 (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MADRID RESIDENT AND CHEF PAULA SALAS, 60, SAYING, ASKED WHAT SHE WANTS TO SEE:  ))
“so that we can have a dignified life -- we need evictions to end, and Airbnb to end and for there to be end to the deterioration of neighbourhoods from mass tourism and by people who are very greedy”
 
(( 1:16 (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MADRID RESIDENT AND ARTIST SONIA PEREZ, SAYING:  ))
I am also a tourist and I have been travelling around the world. Tourism is indeed good, but it is also good to protect the people who live in these places.” 

+++ATMO TRUMPET+++

Last year Spain received some 90-million tourists

More than almost anywhere else in the world 

Some Spanish cities such as Barcelona are pledging to phase out permits for short-term rentals 

To safeguard and expand the housing supply for full-time residents

+++ATMO DRUMS+++

The problem is especially acute for young people

Many of whom are forced to keep living with their parents

Or spend big just to share an apartment

Salaries in Spain have also not kept up 

While wages increased by about 20 per cent in the last decade

Average rents have doubled in the same period

Spain's Housing Ministry says the country needs at least 600-thousand new homes 

To meet the growing demand