Financial geography II: Financial geographies of housing and real estate

MB Aalbers - Progress in human geography, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

Governing urban development in the Low Countries: From managerialism to entrepreneurialism and financialization

J Van Loon, S Oosterlynck… - European Urban and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Has the post-war managerial approach to urban governance in the Netherlands and
Flanders been replaced by more entrepreneurial and financialized forms? In this paper, we …

New geographies of residential capitalism: Financialization of the Turkish housing market since the early 2000s

I Erol - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The post‐2001 financial crisis era in Turkey gave rise to twin booms in housing construction
and credit markets, both of which suffered from the subsequent debt crisis. The financial …

Off the beaten track? Selectivity, discretion and path-shaping in Swedish public housing

M Grander - Housing, Theory and Society, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
By its universal approach, Swedish public housing has traditionally been an instrument to
contribute to the national policy aim of “good housing for all”. However, the universal …

Vacancy at the edges of the precarious city

M Ferreri, A Vasudevan - Geoforum, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we examine the relationship between precarity, property and urban vacancy.
Our main aim is to develop a conceptual framework that connects recent geographical …

Embedding financialization: a policy review of the English Affordable Homes Programme

S Smyth - Housing Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Decent, affordable housing continues to be a major concern for policy-makers, providers
and society at large. This paper contributes to the debate over the future of social housing in …

Social housing as infrastructure: rationale, prioritisation and investment pathway

J Lawson, T Denham, J Dodson, K Flanagan, K Jacobs… - 2019 - figshare.utas.edu.au
Considering social housing as infrastructure may improve investment in the sector, as well
as increase transparency and efficiency in project appraisal and funding prioritisation. It …

Statecraft strategies and housing financialization at the periphery: Post-socialist trajectories in Russia and Poland

M Büdenbender, A Lagna - Finance and society, 2019 - cambridge.org
A new literature on housing and financialization has emerged in recent years, but scholars
have yet to examine how political actors shape national trajectories of housing …

Securing social gains in, against and beyond the state: The case of Denmark's “common housing”

L Vidal - Housing, Theory and Society, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Public housing is a public sector that has been severely affected by privatization policies.
Not so in Denmark, however, where public housing is not provided directly by the State but …

[PDF][PDF] The mobilisation of land as a financial asset

C Ward - Leuven: KU Leuven PhD thesis, 2019 - lirias.kuleuven.be
I contribute to a developing agenda addressing political mediation of the mobilisation of land
as a financial asset, and its relationship to neoliberalising urban renewal strategies. I focus …