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• Can you get private health insurance for a visa in Spain if you have pre-existing conditions?
  Some visas that grant you residency in Spain require you to get private health insurance, particularly if you won’t be working or paying social security. So what if you have a pre-existing health condition - can you still get acceptable coverage?
• Valencia to swap megaphones for headsets to keep tour groups quiet
  Authorities in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia want to make tour groups in the city centre less noisy by paying guides up to €500 each to buy headsets in order for them to not have to shout or use megaphones to be heard by tourists.
• 'Owning a home now a fantasy': Housing crisis piles pressure on Spain's govt
  Spain's acute housing crisis is piling pressure on Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez as his government's measures yield few results and frustration boils over among beleaguered citizens.
• What a mass strike by tenants could mean for Spain's rental market
  Recent housing protests in Spain saw thousands of people call for a tenants' strike, whereby renters would stop paying landlords en masse until they met their demands. Could it help and what would be the legal and economic consequences?