Protests over housing shortages and occupations spread across Europe on Friday, with activists seizing buildings in Barcelona and Dublin as governments faced mounting pressure.

In Barcelona, police evicted activists from a six-story building in the Eixample district after they occupied it to house homeless people. The group, linked to a housing protest camp in Plaça Catalunya, had renamed the building *La revolta* and vowed to expand such actions, citing "too many empty blocks" in the city. Police deployed 11 vans and filed complaints against 19 activists for disobedience. The occupiers said two families already lived in the building and that priority would be given to 50 homeless participants from the camp .

In Dublin, the Peter McVerry Trust, a homelessness charity, sought court orders to remove individuals occupying four flats on Dorset Lane. The trust’s director, David Fee, stated the occupation prevented the charity from housing homeless people and that police had declined to intervene, advising the trust to pursue legal action. The occupants, who acknowledged the trust’s work, proposed an 18-month settlement before vacating, which Fee called "entirely unacceptable" .

In Portugal, housing protests continued with assemblies in Lisbon and Porto, where participants voted to maintain encampments. The movement, which began earlier this month, has drawn criticism from government officials, including Minister Carlos Abreu Amorim, who dismissed the legitimacy of the popular assemblies .

The actions follow broader tensions over housing policy. In Spain, victims’ group Dignidad y Justicia demanded that Vitoria’s mayor, Maider Etxebarria of the PSOE, revoke the use of a civic center for a Jardun-organized event on "The Crisis of Capitalism and Imperialism." The group cited the recent imprisonment of two Jardun members on terrorism charges, linked to alleged possession of ETA-related materials .