The issue of “housing” has generally not been granted an important role in post-war political
economy. Housing-as-policy has been the preserve of social policy analysis and of a …

This article seeks to advance debates about the financialization of housing by focusing on
the emergence of rental housing as a frontier for financialization, a dynamic that is …

abstract This article examines the specific mechanisms that have allowed global financial
markets to penetrate deeply into the activities of US cities. A flood of yield-seeking capital …

The paper develops a sympathetic geographical critique of the concept of financialization
which seeks to account for the growing influence of financial markets over the unfolding of …

As cities have become both site and object of capital accumulation in a neoliberal political
economy, the challenges to community practice aimed at creating, preserving, and …

Real estate is, by definition, local as it is spatially fixed. Mortgage lending, however, has
developed from a local to a national market and is increasingly a global market today. An …

The interventions of crisis management during the 2007 to 2011 financial crisis were not
simply responses to a set of given developments in markets, banking or neo-liberal …

World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students
and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach …

This paper explores the development of residential Spanish Real Estate Investment Trusts
(REITs, known as SOCIMIs) in the country's growing rental market, unpacking their …

Who could have thought that banks would become nationalised, that state debts would
reach historical levels, that bulge bracket investment banks would go bankrupt and that the …