Pastimes

Pastimes

Pastimes, cartoon of 24/09/2022 on CTXT Begoña Villacís was photographed with her henchmen dismantling shantytowns in Ventas, Tetuán and Villaverde Alto and took the opportunity to mix the two by talking about "occupation". "While others open their doors to them, in Madrid we are working for a city model that is incompatible with

Roundtable, comics and housing activism

Roundtable, comics and housing activism

Submitted by Xavi Franch. Wednesday 23 February, at 18.30h, at the Jaume Fuster Library (Plaça de Lesseps, 20). The Jaume Fuster Library is organising, together with the FAVB, the El Coll Civic Centre, and the District of Gràcia a round table with neighbourhood activists and cartoonists who will meet to talk about the

Evolution of the Housing Plan

Evolution of the Housing Plan

Evolution of the Housing Plan. Cartoon of Sunday 16/01/2022 in CTXT. According to it reads the new Housing Plan 2022-2025, which is supposed to be approved today in the Council of Ministers, will revolve around rental subsidies and" housing solutions" (we will come back to this Frankenstein term later) for vulnerable groups and

Newspeak 2021

Newspeak 2021

Newspeak. Cartoon of 17/07/2021 in CTXT This week we read that the pandemic raised poverty in 2020 to the highest level since the Great Recession of 2008. That in Spain there was already poverty of the bad kind before, not to mention that periodic poverty into which we tend to fall when the

Evictions

Evictions

Evictions Cartoon of 19/06/2021 in CTXT I'm naive, I still believe we have a memory for the important things. Last week two people committed suicide when they were about to be evicted from their respective homes in Barcelona y Fuerteventura. Today, the lukewarm reaction to this type of events contrasts with the clamour