Converting residential housing into short-term rentals (STRs), through platforms such as
Airbnb, has become a very profitable business, and a tourist-led rentier class has been …

Spain was one of the most severely hit countries by the 2008 global financial crisis. More
than ten years after, the belated economic recovery has hardly changed the roots of that …

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been around since 1960 but have only become
major players in housing markets in the last twenty years. The current and ongoing wave of …

This paper answers the question why the Dutch state has gone from vigorously stimulating
private-rental growth and liberalization to actively restricting the tenure. Answering this …

Housing is a fundamental human right, because it is key to human well-being and provides
a foundation for other rights, including rights to health, education, water and sanitation …

The extensive research on financialisation of housing and lively public and political debate
on its negative implications for housing affordability have translated into surprisingly modest …

Past research in the housing-movement literature has assumed a close link between the
post-2008 cycle of housing financialization and the resurgence of housing contention in …

Real estate investment trusts, institutional investors and other global asset managers have
gained a controversial reputation for becoming for-profit landlords in the public and private …

We are currently experiencing a manifold crisis of social reproduction which has seriously
affected the capacity of popular access to basic goods such as housing, particularly in urban …

The aim of this study is to estimate the effects of tourism growth on residential stability in two
cities: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Barcelona, Spain. Our focus is on short-term …