Movimientos Sociales y Vivienda en España. Social Movements and Housing in Spain

Squatting movement appears in Spain in the 80's. The year 2006 emerges a new and differentiated social movement, the housing movement. This movement organized young people of all over the country, and therefore consolidated hundreds of platforms of affected by the mortgages of different ages. Their proposals and demands have been a rate routing coming from the 15-M movement. The aim of this article is to compare these two urban movements that could be also understood as emancipation practices and new shapes of participation of the civil society.