Thousands of people marched across 50 Spanish cities in massive protest over the housing crisis. 🇪🇸 The main reason illegal migrations causes long term pressure isn't the crossing but what happens aferwards when they have legal status. About half a million people who were living informally are being converted into legal households with the right to rent and compete for a housing stock that is already running short. Spain's National Statistics Institute recorded 2.3 million foreign born residents arriving between 2023 and 2024, taking the foreign born population to about 9.46 million, roughly 20% of the country. Over the same period developers completed 474,000 homes against demand for 1.2 million since 2021. This has left a large housing shortage.