El juez ha paralizado este martes el desahucio de una veintena de familias de La Riera de Gaià (Tarragona), que se enfrentaban a tener que dejar las viviendas en las que residen desde hace 13 años en régimen de alquiler. Según fuentes de la Sareb (propietaria de esas casas), el aplazamiento se ha producido después de que haya pedido tiempo al juez para estudiar la situación de los inquilinos. El presidente de la Generalitat, Salvador Illa, ha anticipado esa decisión de la empresa pública poco antes en Catalunya Ràdio.

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Brett Christophers, 55, has spent years studying the strategies of large corporations. He began by examining big investment banks such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. But he soon noticed those names being pushed aside on the agendas of politicians and influencers by investment firms like BlackRock and Blackstone. It was not sudden: for decades they had quietly gained ground, and now control almost every aspect of a citizen’s daily life — the home they live in, the water they wash with, the road or railway they use to get to work, or the hospital they visit for an emergency. That is what Christophers, an economic geographer at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University (Sweden), has been documenting in multiple studies and, more recently, in books such as Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World and Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?.

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