Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion's share of wealth growth
going to the top, for a growing percentage of society a middle-class existence is out of reach …

Fruto das reflexões que a urbanista Raquel Rolnik elaborou durante e imediatamente após
o término de seu mandato como relatora para o Direito à Moradia Adequada da ONU …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Financialization of Housing Due to the financialization of housing
in today’s market, housing risks are increas ingly becoming financial risks. Financialization …

There is a small but growing literature on the financialization of housing that demonstrates
how housing is a central aspect of financialization. Despite the varied analyses of the …

In the literature, one finds various explanations for the rise of financialized capitalism. In the
different strands of financialization literature, housing either plays a minor role or is simply …

This paper advances a research agenda on how asset‐based welfare policies, residential
market volatility, stratified accumulation and vulnerability impinge upon the geography of …

Over the last few decades we have witnessed a global U‐turn in prevailing housing and
urban policy agendas, spread around the world by the driving forces of globalization and …

The private rental sector (PRS) is making a surprising comeback. A central argument in our
paper is that we see the rise of PRS and the associated stagnation of homeownership as …

The issue of “housing” has generally not been granted an important role in post-war political
economy. Housing-as-policy has been the preserve of social policy analysis and of a …

This paper argues that the relentless logic of commodification has served to undermine a
key element of the social cement of contemporary capitalism: home ownership. In …