Can Sánchez convince Spanish voters he is their best hope for fairer housing?

Recent death of 87-year-old woman likely to focus attention on crisis in run-up to election at end of NovemberEurope live – latest updatesEven before María del Carmen Abascal died on Wednesday night, a mere fortnight after her eviction from the Madrid flat where she had lived for most of her life, the frail 87-year-old woman had become the enduring face of Spain’s housing crisis.Her plight – and the wider issue it embodied – had led to street demonstrations, the creation of a protest camp in the middle of the Spanish capital, and spurred the socialist-led government to propose emergency measures