Cars become home for Spain’s pandemic casualties

When the social worker called to tell Javier Irure that he was being evicted, the 65-year-old Spaniard could not fathom that he could end up homeless after five decades of manual labour. “I grabbed some clothes, a few books and other things, wrapped them up in a bedsheet and told myself, ‘I have one more roof to put over my head: my car,'” Irure said from inside the old compact car that has been his shelter for the past three months. Irure belongs to the multitude of economic victims of the coronavirus pandemic.