Biography
She has studied and/or conducted research in San Juan (Puerto Rico), Barcelona (Catalonia) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). She has conducted extensive applied research on abandoned properties in Puerto Rico. She is the co-founder of squat-based project Casa Taft 169 (2013) and the nonprofit Centro para la Reconstrucción del Habitat (2017).
Research Interests
Urban squatting, real estate, political economy, urban ecology, displacement and climate change adaptation.
Highlighted Publications
Moscoso, M., 2018. ¡Aquí vive gente! O sobre la lucha por el lugar. 80grados. Available at: https://www.80grados.net/aqui-vive-gente-o-sobre-la-lucha-por-el-lugar
Rubiano, D., Moore, E., Gallardo, L., and Moscoso, M., Puerto Rico's Public School Closures; Community Effects & Future Paths. Berkeley, CA; Othering & Belonging Institute, (2020)
Recent Publications
Arabía, MM. 2025. Evicted: A Retrospective Look at the Recent Outbreak of Occupy Initiatives in Puerto Rico. Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 54(1): 49–61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.632
Singh S. and Moscoso Arabía, M. (May 2025) Pension Funds, Tenants and Housing Insecurity in Global Financialized Real Estate in Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property Edited by Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani, Annie Powers, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Available: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mf8k3zg