Spain: a code of good conduct governing evictions

12^th March 2012

The Spanish government approved a "code of good conduct" on 9th March designed for the banks, in order to avoid, in the most dramatic situations, evictions of indebted families, who can no longer reimburse their housing loans. "In this Council of Ministers we adopted measures to palliate the dramatic situation of many Spaniards who have lost everything , who have lost their work," declared the government's spokesperson Soraya Saenz de Santamaria to the press just as the country is suffering a record unemployment rate of 22.85%. There are "many families - more than one and a half million - all whose members are unemployed, families without income and in the face of the impossible task of paying their mortgage, they are about to be evicted ..." she added.

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