Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca

Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH; Platform for People Affected by Mortgages) is a Spanish grassroots organization that takes direct action to stop evictions and campaigns for housing rights.

It was established in response to the 2008 financial crisis that triggered the bursting of the Spanish housing bubble and resists evictions due to foreclosures.

[1] The group organises non-violent resistance to evictions and campaigns for a social rent and more aid for people unable to pay their mortgages.

Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish Prime Minister condemned escraches as "undemocratic" and María Dolores de Cospedal, Secretary-General of the People's Party called them "pure Nazism".

[5] In 2013, PAH received the Premio Nacional de Derechos Humanos, a national award for human rights.