Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca
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| Abbreviation | PAH |
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| Formation | 2009 |
Region served | Spain |
| Website | afectadosporlahipoteca |
Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH; Platform for People Affected by Mortgages) is a Spanish
Activity and campaigns
The Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH, Platform for People Affected by Mortgages) was set up in Barcelona in February 2009, by activists previously involved in V de Vivienda (H for Housing). The group aimed to protest and combat the foreclosures which were evicting people from their homes. It is organised horizontally by assembly and grew exponentially across Spain, with 220 local groups recorded by 2017.[1] The group organises non-violent resistance to evictions and campaigns for a social rent and more aid for people unable to pay their mortgages. The PAH had successfully stopped more than 2,000 evictions by 2016.[1]
PAH achieved notoriety for its practice of "escraches" in which the homes and offices of politicians were visited. Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish Prime Minister condemned escraches as "undemocratic" and María Dolores de Cospedal, Secretary-General of the People's Party called them "pure Nazism". A lawyer representing PAH commented "We don’t like to carry out escraches but they've left us with no other choice".[5]
Awards
In 2013, PAH received the Premio Nacional de Derechos Humanos, a national award for human rights.
See also
References
- ^ .
- ^ Ash, Lucy (19 February 2014). "Ada Colau: Spain's anti-eviction crusader". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ Blanchar, Clara (7 May 2014). "Ada Colau deja de ser portavoz de la PAH". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ Burridge, Tom (25 May 2015). "Spain enters a new political era". BBC News. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Spain's anti-evictions lobby wins EU prize". The Local Spain. 6 June 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ "La Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca recibe el Premio Nacional de Derechos Humanos". ElDiario.es. January 16, 2013.
Further reading
- Gonzalez, Robert (2019). "From the Squatters' Movement to Housing Activism in Spain: Identities, Tactics and Political Orientation". Contested cities and urban activism. Singapore. ISBN 978-981-13-1730-9.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - Iturriaga, Mikel López (2 August 2013). "'In Spain you can be a mobster but still merit full institutional approval'". El Pais. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
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