The VOX Málaga Municipal Group has reported the case of a woman who, along with her brother, has been trying to recover her occupied home since 2024 and is currently sleeping on the street.
The VOX Málaga Municipal Group reported this Friday the case of a woman and her brother, owners of an occupied property in the capital, who according to the party have been trying to recover the property since 2024 and are currently forced to sleep on the street.
In light of this situation, VOX will bring an initiative to the next Plenary of the Málaga City Council to demand urgent social support measures and actions aimed at combating illegal occupation.
The group's deputy spokesperson, Yolanda Gómez, pointed out that this case "gives a face" to a problem that, in her opinion, should not occur in a city like Málaga. "We are faced with two siblings who own a property and yet have been trying to recover it for almost three years while being forced to sleep on the street," she stated.
Gómez argued that administrations must guarantee housing solutions for those in need, but believes that this responsibility "cannot fall on the owners affected by illegal occupations."
"You cannot protect a vulnerable person by creating another vulnerable person. If someone needs housing, the response must come from the Administration and not at the expense of another citizen's rights," she noted.
From VOX Málaga, they hold the left-wing government housing policies responsible for this situation and criticise measures such as the anti-eviction decree approved during the pandemic and the 2023 Housing Law, considering that they have generated greater legal insecurity for property owners.
According to Yolanda Gómez, these regulations "have ended up incentivising occupation and 'inquiocupación'," as well as reducing, in her view, the long-term rental supply because some owners choose to withdraw their properties from the market.
The party also cited data from the Ministry of the Interior for 2025, with 14,875 reported incidents of home invasion and property usurpation in Spain, although they maintain that this figure does not include other cases such as "inquiocupación" or extrajudicial agreements.
In the motion that they will present to the City Council, VOX will request that the Municipal Housing Institute immediately study the case of this homeowner and provide her with a temporary housing alternative while the judicial process to recover her home is resolved.
"We want Social Services to also take into account the vulnerability of the owner. When someone trying to recover their home ends up sleeping on the street, that person also needs protection," Gómez stated.
Additionally, the municipal group will propose various measures against illegal occupation, including strengthening regulations, creating a specific neighbourhood police unit, controls over vulnerability reports, and requesting the Spanish Government to repeal the current Housing Law.
"Property owners cannot continue to be the victims of failed housing policies," concluded the deputy spokesperson for VOX Málaga.
The case highlights the vulnerability that property owners may suffer due to prolonged occupations, a phenomenon affecting hundreds of families in the province of Málaga. VOX's motion seeks to bring visibility to this reality and demand concrete solutions for those who, despite owning a home, end up without a roof over their heads.
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