Spain’s Largest Unions Call General Strike for Nov 11 Over Housing

The symbolic weight here is that housing has moved from a technocratic policy file to a trigger for general-strike politics, a shift not seen since the crisis era. That raises the political cost of inaction for whichever government emerges from the snap election, and it puts rental and affordability measures squarely inside the electoral fight rather than on its margins. Whether the strike materializes and whether housing stays central to the campaign are the open questions; both will shape how much room any incoming government has to defer the issue.