Habitar la trinxera. Històries del moviment pel dret a l’habitatge a Barcelona is a book that results from following a thread. An investigation that began in 2012 to address the origins of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH, Platform of People Affected by Mortgages) became a trajectory of interviews to talk with people who have led very diverse movements for the right to housing and against urbanistic and real estate speculation in the city of Barcelona in the last three decades.

The book collects stories of victories, defeats, but above all of struggles to transform the world (or, at least, the city) and not resign to life being governed by economic interests. Stories of the politics that are done at street level, either occupying empty spaces or collecting signatures to change a law. The first chapter places us at the moment of greatest strength of the PAH, to then talk about the history of squat movement, anti-globalization movements, neighbourhood organization against real estate harassment, and the experiences born in the aftermath of the indignados’ movement.