Jaime Palomera is a Spanish housing expert and activist. He is co-founder of IDRA, the Barcelona Urban Research Institute. Dr. Palomera holds an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of London and PhD in Social Anthropology from UB (University of Barcelona). He has worked as a European Research Council researcher and professor at UB. He is active with the Tenants Union in Catalonia and Spain, a housing movement that has rapidly grown in many cities, stopping thousands of non-fault evictions through civil disobedience, confronting corporate landlords, and designing important public policies such as rent control.