Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

The study of housing has a long history in sociology, but since the 1960s, it has been
relatively hidden in a number of sociological subfields and scattered across a range of …

Fruto das reflexões que a urbanista Raquel Rolnik elaborou durante e imediatamente após
o término de seu mandato como relatora para o Direito à Moradia Adequada da ONU …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Financialization of Housing Due to the financialization of housing
in today’s market, housing risks are increas ingly becoming financial risks. Financialization …

Over the last few decades we have witnessed a global U‐turn in prevailing housing and
urban policy agendas, spread around the world by the driving forces of globalization and …

Many postindustrial cities across Europe and other contexts are marked by growing social–
spatial inequalities, housing liberalization, and gentrification, which limit the housing options …

The paper expands the conceptual framework within which we examine mortgage debt by
reconceptualising mortgages as a biotechnology: a technology of power over life that forges …

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 report discusses the financialization of urban governance and the built environment as
an explicit state strategy, focusing on municipal finance and the use of financial products by …

The managers of a growing wall of money are continuously searching for investment
opportunities. The financialization literature describes how this mobile capital puts pressure …