Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca

Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca is a Spanish organization that campaigns for the right to a home. The PAH is a social movement struggling for decent housing, having emerged in Barcelona in February 2009 and now extending across the Spanish territory. It surged in response to the real estate crisis of 2008 that triggered the bursting of the Spanish housing bubble and became a strong part of the movements that later formed to contest austerity politics in the context of the sovereign debt crisis. As such, the PAH also came to constitute a part of the 15M movement that emerged in May 2011. The PAH brings together people who find it difficult to pay back their mortgages or who find themselves in a process of eviction due to unpaid mortgages, and people in solidarity with this problem. In January 2013, the PAH was awarded the Spanish national prize for human rights.