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 …

In the last two decades, especially since the 2008 Financial Crisis, there has been a revival
of interest in Marx's concept of relative surplus populations (hereafter: RSP). The RSP …

Queer refugees are misfits in the global political economy of migration. While international
human rights law has provided some room for queer acceptance, queer refugees face …

While gentrification in some contexts has been analysed as a profit-driven process best
explained by the rent gap, state governance, eg through social mixing, has elsewhere been …

Globally accelerating environmental breakdown necessitates a large-scale mobilisation not
only of the natural and engineering sciences, but also of insights generated from social …

This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and
Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities …

Although housing plays a pivotal role in global capitalism, the theoretical links between
housing research and political economy remain tenuous. Building on the recent revival of …

Full article: The New Urban Displacements? Finance-Led Capitalism, Austerity, and Rental
Housing Dynamics Skip to Main Content Taylor and Francis Online homepage Taylor and …

While the un making of public housing in the US and the subsequent displacement of
residents is a widely studied phenomenon, this intervention aims to bring awareness to an …

Housing is a key empirical entry point into the lifeworlds of refugees in host societies. To
date, scholarly work has mainly focused on the first phase of arrival, that of asylum …