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Who can protect themselves from heat? Respond to heat inequality in the province of Barcelona
This pioneering study reveals important social and territorial inequalities in the ability to protect against extreme heat and proposes public policies to guarantee it.
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Between the field and the table
Analysis of agri-food supply chains and proposal for the reorientation of public policies towards democratic planning and governance of these chains.
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From Buildings at Risk of Eviction to Housing Cooperatives
A pioneering study on expanding the public housing stock through the creation of housing cooperatives in existing buildings at risk of eviction.
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Prototype of a wholesale distribution node to reduce food inequalities: Mercabesòs
Pioneering study on inequality and food that aims to create a public food distribution node as a strategy to act on food production, distribution and access.
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Residential market, impacts of purchasing limitation policies and other measures
Evaluation of the limitation of speculative purchases and other measures.
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Infrastructures for sustainable food systems: the case of Armentera’s slaughterhouse
The report analyzes the role of local slaughterhouses as key food system infrastructure. Drawing on economic, social, and environmental data, it demonstrates how their decline has contributed to the loss of peasant farming and increased territorial vulnerability.
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The rise of rentierism and the global urban break
The report offers an international look at the rise of rentism based on the comparison between four global cities.
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The Kidnapping of Housing
This book unravels the roots of a crisis that affects millions of people and explains how the market is already intervened, but in favor of rentism. A call for action and a rethink of current policies.
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Why does the price of food rise?
We analyze the role of the food oligopoly in the increase in food prices and propose public actions to reverse it.
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Barcelona Plural Economy
Drawing on more than forty local and international experiences, it proposes strategies to turn the plural economy into a genuine city-wide public policy.
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Public actions to strengthen Mercabarna in sustainable food
The report analyzes Mercabarna’s strategic role in the context of the global food crisis and proposes public actions with a special emphasis on local production and short marketing channels.
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The price of prejudice
A groundbreaking research on racism in the rental market in Madrid and Barcelona, accompanied by public policy proposals to address it.