The financialisation of housing in Spain: between dispossession and resistance

Mònica Clua-Losada

Chapter 9 in Resisting the Financialization of Housing, 2026, pp 115-128 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter focuses on the key housing social movements that have developed in Spain over the last 15 years in response to the financialisation of housing. Three types of movements have emerged during this period. The first is the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), which appeared during the early stages of the global financial crisis and became one of Spain's largest contemporary social movements. A second type of movement, consisting of tenants rather than mortgage holders, became the central organiser of housing movements, with tenants’ unions spreading widely from 2015 to 2016. Much of the public (and private) rental housing stock has been financialised over the last decade, leading to a nearly monopolised market. The third type of movement has been the neighbourhood housing unions (often connected to the other two movements), which cover mortgage holders, tenants, and squatters. This chapter traces these movements, with specific reference to the city of Barcelona.

Keywords: Housing movements; Financialisation; Housing; Protest; Critical political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035379637
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