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The Variegated Financialization of Housing
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 financialization of housing and the importance of housing to financialization, the relations between housing and...
Financialization of Housing in Brazil: New Frontiers
The financialization of housing has been increasingly identified as an important driver of social and economic change in contemporary capitalism. Focusing on the Brazilian context, this article considers the extent to which recent changes in housing regulations, policies and markets confirm or challenge...
Privatization, Financialization and State Restructuring in Eastern Germany: The case of Am südpark
Using a mix of survey data, results from a study on local planning politics and fieldwork, this article discusses the interplay of planning and welfare policies with global financial markets in the ‘making’ of social segregation in Halle-Neustadt, a borough in the German city of Halle (Saale). Here,...
JULY ISSUE
Featured image shows a simple counter-financialization equation: graffiti in north inner-city Dublin (photo © Martin Sokol, 2015)
Featured image shows landscapes of financialization: glass buildings mirroring favelas in the port of Rio de Janeiro (photo © Alvaro Luis dos Santos Pereira, 2017)
Featured image shows a detail from ‘Gaben der Völker’, a ceramic mural by Irmela and Martin Hadelich (1968) in Halle-Neustadt (photo © Laura Colini, 2013)