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Electrician Ivan Camillo has been unemployed for five months.
Despite boasting Europe's fourth-largest economy, hundreds of thousands have been forced into destitution by Spain’s housing crash.
Many Spaniards now exist on the margins of a society that just a few years ago promised them easy access to cars, holiday homes, trips abroad and regular tickets to professional soccer games.
The crisis was born out of a mighty housing and construction bubble that saw house prices triple between 1995 and 2007. They've fallen by at least a quarter since then. About one out of every four people in Spain is without a job, according to government statistics, and hundreds of thousands have lost their homes
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Juan Antonio Pache, 67, lost his business and home during the economic crisis and now lives with his son. Pache doesn't receive a state pension and has been forced to live separately from his wife, who has moved back in with family in another town.
"The only ones helping me are (Catholic charity) Caritas. I've always worked, I've worked a lot, all I've done is work," he says.
"I have no pension, no income, nothing, nothing," he says as he stands in Sabadell, near Barcelona. "I'm living with the 50 euros ($62) my wife is able to send me occasionally
Tony Cortes and Ana Valderrama sit with daughters Jennifer, seven, and Ariadna, 11, in the apartment the family occupies illegally in Terrassa, Spain. Cortes, 38, worked in construction and Valderrama, 36, at a cleaning company until they both lost their jobs around three years ago.
"I was left without a job and even though I searched and searched I couldn't find another one," Cortes says.
In December, the family joined 10 others to occupy an empty building owned by a bank.
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Members of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) campaign group meets in Barcelona's Old Town