Brian Rosa

📢 Avui hem presentat un informe jurídic que conclou que limitar la compra d’habitatge només per a residència habitual en zones tensionades és legalment viable.

🚫 Aquesta mesura pot ser clau per frenar l’especulació. 

T'ho expliquem🧵⤵️

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What happened next Jack?

They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out 'The Hole' The low-lying neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border will be the first place in New York where officials may buy properties proactively — instead of in response to a disaster.

"The Hole" is becoming the first place in the five boroughs where the New York City government will offer to buy flood-prone homes from homeowners — proactively, instead of in response to a disaster.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

The Left Can’t Abandon Nostalgia to the Right The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia tha...

Feeling this jacobin.com/2025/10/port...

Demà al carrer.

As of tomorrow I am on strike, joining various faculty and student unions. Not how I wanted to start, a few weeks into working at the UB. We must stand up to Israel and I, as a US citizen, am especially implicated. Several who were kidnapped last night are from Cat, including former mayor Ada Colau.

YouTube video by Slow Memory COST Action Interview with Carles Vallejo

One of the most fascinating interviews I have done (w/Javier Tébar). Vallejo’s life story is incredible and, as a retired trade union leader, he remains involved in orgs focused on democratic memory. This clip is about the idea of solidarity and deindustrialization. youtube.com/watch?v=JKHw...

Working on it!

A Blackstone subsidiary does the most energy efficient retrofits of residential buildings in Spain (among private companies). That means a lot of benefit from EU subsidies. Blackstone is also the largest private residential landlord in Spain. *scratches chin*

Well that’s it, after a kid, leaving a tenure-track job in New York, and three postdocs, as of this week I am a professor again. It hasn’t been easy, but I am really happy to have landed at the Universitat de Barcelona!

I’ve seen the proofs (have a small bit on platform-mediated short-term rentsals) and this is going to be a total banger pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Hay más Tecnocasas en Barcelona que Dunkin Donuts en Boston

Trump is What Happens When You Give a Landlord Power He wants to “own” Gaza and Greenland, and he treats immigrants like tenants he can evict at will. The rent-seeking class created Trump, and now he’s governing as America's landlord in chief.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/trump-i...

Hey

Raise salaries, lower rents! Big housing demo tomorrow in Barcelona

Statements of Support for Columbia University PhD Student Ranjani Srinivasan From Geographers, Planners, and Other Academics of Conscience In what follows, we circulate two statements directed at two parties (Columbia University's GSAPP and Geography and Planning professional associations). We delineate which portions of text are common ...

Ranjani Srinivasan, the Columbia grad student whose visa was revoked forcing a "self deportation", was scheduled to present their research at the AAG. This is an outrageous attack on our colleague and on geographic thought. Share and sign the statement below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Awesome day speaking with some of the smartest people I could think of about just transitions and housing policy
in Catalonia and the Spanish state. Very cool to invite people you admire into a room and think together.

(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator.

Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long.

Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio
Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...

Jovent amb les coses clares, conscients del racisme al que viuen sotmesos, conscients de que lluitar junts i sense complexes és el millor camí.

El jovent de Salt, un exemple.
No esteu sols.
1/2

YouTube video by SVETLANA SVETLANA - I❤️BCN

BRUTAL youtu.be/_basz2j4_OE?...

ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...

Entire board of Journal of Architectural Education resigns after their forthcoming issue on Palestine was withdrawn www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Horizons in the Housing Struggle We are living through a polycrisis, a multidimensional, interlinked series of capitalism's structural problems emerging worldwide. Unfolding genocides, wars and armed conflicts, Western democratic mod...

metropolitics.org/Horizons-in-...

📣 JOB ALERT
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.

More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!

En el contexto del Proyecto VIVIENDIGNA buscamos candidatos/as para hacer una tesis doctoral. Se agradece difusión! Más info abajo👇

Bet you didn’t know I could be so quanti (title is in Spanish but article is in English) estudiosgeograficos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/es...

📢 The IOC is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate!

🔖 Conduct original research on urban studies. Publish and present your research while gaining exposure in the field. Mentorship from renowned urbanist and IOC Director Loretta Lees!

⏰ April 1, 2025, by 11:59 PM ET

🔗 bu.edu/ioc/hiring

Congrats, @lorettaclees.bsky.social!