Homeownership has become a 'normalised'tenure of choice in many advanced economies,
with housing playing a pivotal role in shifts from collective to asset-based welfare. Young …

Few sociologists treat housing as a key independent variable, despite the emergence of
disparate bodies of research analyzing how housing affects outcomes that traditionally …

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 …

An asset is both a resource and property, in that it generates income streams with its sale
price based on the capitalization of those revenues. Although an asset's income streams can …

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't
land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the …

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–09, political economists have typically
identified and interrogated speculative logics and credit-debt relations as the markers of …

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 article argues that Airbnb should be understood as a new urban institution that is
transforming relations between market, state, and civil society actors. Taking the Airbnb …