If you have a mortgage of 600€ that you can't pay you might be able to pay rent of 300€ month for the same type of property. I'm living in a place that was valued a few years back at 160,000€ and they are now selling for 65,000€.
Most people here bought years ago at 25-30,000€ but in the boom prices and mortgages were ridiculous.

If every suicide case decided to take a politician or a banker with them something might get done.

That's what I call positive thinking.

more positive would be a politician and a banker

alternatively a politician and banker instead of a member of the public

Yep , but they are like wild pigs ,hard to bag two with one shot .

http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/s...es_264129.html

Changes approved by parliament but not yet implemented and simply the basis for future legislation according to the above link.

Meanwhile mass protests continue and maybe suicides also if the new law is not brought into being sharpish ?

There is pressure for change from all sides. As well as the domestic protest movement (which is very strong), the EU Court of Justice has criticised the Spanish laws, and also

Ecuador takes Spain’s mortgage law to European Court of Human Rights

Clearly a case of mortgage mis-selling. One Ecuadorian construction worker was given a mortgage of three times the value of the house. Another family was told by the bank their monthly payments would never rise above €900 but they ended up at €1400, by which time the building boom was over and they were both out of work.

Bankers the same the World over, but sinking even deeper into their own filth when such as C./S. Americans are so disgusted at their treatment in an EU Country.