Might the figure of 39,000 families evicted from their homes in 2012, quoted by several newspapers, have been inflated? Reading data published by the Bank of Spain, it would seem so. According to the banks carrying out forced evictions, “only” 2,405 owners were forced to leave their properties in 2012 because there were unable to keep up their mortgage payments.

This is, finally, “the truth about the evictions” reports Jesus Rivasés, director of the weekly magazine Tiempo. For the magazine, these figures cast doubt on the numbers quoted in other reports and by collectives opposing the evictions as platforms for those affected by them.