Patricia Tapia, 28, waits to be evicted from her apartment on February 15, 2012 in Madrid, Spain. Tapia, an unemployed Ecuadorian mother of two, used to work at a mailing company but when she was six months pregnant the employer decided not to renew her contract and she could not afford to pay her mortgage. Despite she has lost the property, she still has to pay 200.000EUR to Bankia Bank which own the house.
In the end, Patricia got permission to stay another month, claimming humanitarian issues as her one year old baby was ill at the moment and she has no other place to stay.
The anti-eviction organization 'Platform for People Affected by Mortgages' in Spain has called for a permanent halt to the evictions of families who are struggling to pay their debts because of the poor economic climate.