Mortgaged Lives

Mortgaged Lives, translated by Michelle Teran, tells the story of the PAH, the Platforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (Platform for People Affected by Mortgages).

The PAH is massively popular yet outsider social movement that has been driving the most direct challenge to the authority of the state and corporations to rule, directly focusing its social energy on materially and politically addressing Spain's home bankruptcy crisis. Written by two of the founders of the PAH, Ada Colau and Adria Alemany, Mortgaged Lives explains the causes, analyzes the role of the public administrations, reveals the fight carried out by the PAH with first-person accounts, and offers advice and resources for defending the right to housing and avoiding abuses of power by the banks and financial institutions.

Language: English