Assetization and the 'new asset geographies'

K Birch, C Ward - Dialogues in human geography, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Beds for rent

T White - Economy and Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Housing has long been the quintessential rentier asset. But under financialized capitalism its
enrolment into accumulation dynamics has greatly intensified. As investors increasingly turn …

From the streets to the statehouse: how tenant movements affect housing policy in Los Angeles and Berlin

K Card - Housing Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
How can tenants affect housing policy? This paper compares rental housing politics in Los
Angeles (USA) and Berlin (Germany) between 2008-2020 by examining how political …

Tourism‐Led Rentier Capitalism: Extracting Rent and Value from Tourism Property Investment

G Wijburg, MB Aalbers, V Conte, A Stoffelen - Antipode, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A highly heterogenous group of actors develops, owns, manages, and purchases tourism
property around the globe. In this paper, we discuss the rise of “tourism‐led rentier …

Responding to housing precarity: The coping strategies of generation rent

R Waldron - Housing Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Across advanced economies, a new generation of renters are confronting a suite of social
and economic precarities with respect to housing, employment and welfare. Unaffordable …

Renovations as an investment strategy: Circumscribing the right to housing in Sweden

J Gustafsson - Housing Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
There is an emergent field of writings on financialized landlords' undertaking of apartment
renovations as an investment strategy and its effect on housing inequalities. Seldom do …

Transforming social housing into an asset class: REITs and the financialization of supported housing in England

R Goulding - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article explores the governance of risk in financialization through the entry of Real
Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and other investment funds into specialized supported …

Contesting the financialization of student accommodation: Campaigns for the right to housing in Dublin, Ireland

A Reynolds - Housing Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Financialized student accommodation has emerged as an international asset class and is a
more visible and politically contentious feature of Irish cities. In this paper, I focus on Dublin …

[PDF][PDF] Affordable private rental supply and demand: short-term disruption (2016-2021) and longer-term structural change (1996-2021).

M Reynolds, S Parkinson, J De Vries, K Hulse - AHURI Final Report, 2024 - osf.io
Over the last 35 years, the PRS has come to play a critical role in housing Australians, yet
there is accumulating evidence that the sector does not provide an adequate supply of …

What is local government financialisation? Four empirical channels to clarify the roles of local government

H Hasenberger - Urban Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent literature at the nexus of geography and political economy notes that local
governments are becoming financialised. But it is not always clear what this means …