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Squatting is a symptom that some They want to make a big problem. Fear is the worst virus\". Linked as source an article by Emmanuel Rodríguez published in CTXT titled 'What's up behind the campaign against squatting?\', but Rodríguez does not say that. In the article, Rodríguez collects several sources on occupations and housing in the Community of Madrid and in Spain. One of those sources is an article published in El País in February 2018 that cites data collected by the Office of Occupied Housing made public by the then delegate of the Government in the Community of Madrid. According to this source, the owners of occupied homes in the Community of Madrid in 2017 were banking entities (1,345), public companies (1,253), commercial companies (709) and individuals (621). That is, of the occupied homes in the Community in Madrid in 2017, 621 of 3,928 were property of individuals. This represents 15.8% of occupied homes and does not one in every 5,000 (0.02%). What Rodríguez literally says is that in Madrid in 2017 "only one in 5,000 homes in the hands of small owners in the region were squatted. The rest were mainly owned by banks and public companies.\" But with one in every 5,000 homes refers to the total number of homes in the hands of individuals, not the total number of occupied homes. How does Rodríguez arrive at that estimate? Of the housing stock in the Community of Madrid (2,894,679 in 2011), the author of the article calculates that if Almost 4,000 homes are occupied, and about 600 were owned by individuals; those 600 Regarding the entire housing stock, it is one in every 5,000. At Maldita.es we have previously discussed the problem of squatting. You can read more about it in this article. First publication date of this article: 08/27/2020 * Headline changed on August 31. 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Only one in every 5000 squatted homes in 2017 belonged to small owners