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 …

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 …

Financial violence is racial violence: geographies of housing financialization spatialize
hierarchies of death-dealing racial difference. However, research concerned with housing …

As the effects of austerity continue to ravage cities and the impacts of climate change
become more pronounced, municipal officials around the world are struggling to pay for …

In the years since the financial crisis, low-income housing markets are increasingly
dominated by speculative bulk ownership and eviction. These intertwined trends reflect both …

The practice of selling homes on contract—typically on onerous terms and comparatively
riskier for the buyer than traditional mortgage financing—was commonplace in the US …

This chapter reviews the financialisation together with the development in the real estate
sector. It discusses the question of whether the real estate sector and the financial sector are …

The most recent conversations about financial instability in International Political Economy
have addressed the ongoing financial spasms of the past five years; a global financial …

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 …

This paper contributes to scholarship on the relationship between financialisation and the
production of urban space by examining the implementation of the Gulf Opportunity (GO) …