Financial markets are making an ever larger impact on young adults' access to housing
worldwide. At the same time, housing-related family assistance also shapes young people's
housing conditions. Bence Kováts's The Financialisation of Housing and Housing-related
Family Support in Hungary examines how housing-related family assistance deeply
embedded in Hungarian society transformed under the process of the rapid marketisation of
housing following regime change in 1989. The historically informed analysis of a large …

Bence Kováts's book, The Financialisation of Housing and Housing-related Family Support
in Hungary, builds on his doctoral dissertation and is driven by a pressing need to better
understand the dynamics of commodification and de-commodification in housing,
particularly within the context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with a particular focus
on Hungary. While global trends indicate a resurgence of commodification in housing,
leading to increased reliance on familial support, it is unclear whether similar patterns are …