A CIDADE NEOLIBERAL E AS VIDAS PRECARIZADAS:

A DIMENSÃO VIVIDA DA CRISE DA MORADIA NA ESPANHA PÓS CRISE DAS HIPOTECAS

Abstract

The following article is based on a thesis research that takes as its object the Spanish case of the 2008 mortgage crisis, understanding this as a paradigmatic case of the production model of housing and the neoliberal city and the contradictions arising from it. After decades in which the real state boom represented the engine of the Spanish economy, supported by the mortgage indebtedness of families, the crisis in the sector, triggered shortly after the subprime mortgage crisis in the USA, represented the downfall of the economy of the country and its families. These, indebted and evicted from their homes in favor of creditor bank, didn`t find support in the state that affirmed the need to adopt fiscal austerity, with cuts in the social policies, while creating measures to migrate bank losses. The equation home without people and people without home reveals the contradiction of the neoliberal model. It`s in this context that this article is placed with the objective of analyzing how the management model of housing and the city in tension in the Spanish case produced precariousness of housing alternatives and the lives of individuals and people involved, in diferente dimensions. Activating a bibliographic review on the Spanish case and collections carried out in participant observation with the social moviment Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca in Barcelona, with the semi-directive interviews, the text builds a narrative in which the lived testimony has special importance. In conclusion, the reflection affirms the need to denounce and make visible the serius consequences of the housing and city management model expressed in the Spanish case, which, as stated in the critical urban literature, is a model on global scale.