Tell us about yourself and your participation in this project. (0:18)
What is La PAH, how did it come about and what social realities are inscribed into this platform? (1:13)
What is La PAH inspired by and who is it for? (3:47)
What relationship does La PAH have with 15M? (7:41)
What discourse does La PAH advocate? (8:52)
How does the Spanish constitution include the right to housing? (10:33)
Can you tell us about Spanish mortgage law? (11:35)
Why has the decision of the European tribunal still not taken effect? (12:47)
What are some of the difficulties that La PAH faces? (14:21)
How have the municipal councils for change in Madrid and Barcelona responded to the housing crisis? (19:29)
Why do you think that extant tenant unions have started up even with La PAH already existing? (20:20)
What happens when a person is evicted? What is the next step? (21:54)
What is the social housing policy in Spain? (27:46)
How has the mortgage problem changed? (30:07)
From your point of view, how should the housing problem in Spain be solved? (32:19)
What keeps your activism alive in moments of political apathy? (36:27)
I know you’re familiar with Pau Faus’s Seven Days with La PAH. Can you tell us what you think of this work? (37:40)
The Platform for Those Affected by Mortgage (abbreviation PAH) is an organization in the national arena. It is a general movement for the right to a living space and against life-long debts here in the Spanish state. The organization started in 2009, one year after the international crisis that began in the US in 2007 arrived in Spain with the explosion of the subprime mortgage bubble. After being created in 2009, the Platform expanded in 2011 when there was a civilian protest that the press called “Los Indignados (The Outraged),” but that called itself 15M because it was born on May 15, 2011. The Platform expanded with the 15M movement and through one of its campaigns called “Stop Evictions,” which was against the evictions occurring to those with lifelong debts on their homes. This campaign popularized the Platform and after connecting itself with an assembly-style movement like 15M, the Platform also adopted a radically assemblary-style and democratic form. Without the existence of the 15M movement, it never would have acquired this form.
La PAH a hanf book. Lesson for collective action from the fight for the right to housing.