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Pla Estratègic Metropolità de Barcelona (PEMB) @pemb.cat · 5d

📢 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🧵⤵️

🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/oihjjlxspk

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 6d

What happened next Jack?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 6d

"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.

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.

www.thecity.nyc

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9d

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

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 9d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 9d

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

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...

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xapo 🇵🇸 @xapo.portland.cat · 13d

Demà al carrer.

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 14d

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...

Interview with Carles Vallejo

YouTube video by Slow Memory COST Action

youtube.com

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 16d

Working on it!

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 20d

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*

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 25d

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!

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · Jul 13

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=...

Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity

Madeleine Hamlin and Carlos Delclós This book is both a resource and a provocation: it supports critical reflection, interdisciplinary dialogue, and coalition-building, while inviting readers to think...

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · May 1

Hay más Tecnocasas en Barcelona que Dunkin Donuts en Boston

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · Apr 18

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

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

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hey

BCNUEJ @bcnuej.bsky.social · Apr 2

🤓Meet @brianrosa.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher at our lab who looks back at how growing up in Connecticut eventually led him to study #urbanjustice at @icta-uab.bsky.social #https://www.bcnuej.org/2025/04/02/brian-rosa/👇

Brian Rosa: "Being a foreigner and conducting social research is a double-edged sword" - Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability

Our researcher Brian Rosa on his journey from Connecticut to ICTA-UAB in exploring housing inequalities and green urban transformations.

www.bcnuej.org

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · Apr 4

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

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · Mar 22

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...

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 ...

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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · Mar 21

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.

ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · Mar 21

1/ 📢 How can we tackle housing inequalities in the green transition?

The ReHousin project at @icta-uab.bsky.social is bringing together stakeholders to discuss housing policies & ecological transition initiatives in Spain and Catalonia.

🏠🌿 #HousingJustice #GreenTransition

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Mar 4

(🧵) 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...

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Jordi @jordimagrinya.bsky.social · Mar 13

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.
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