Resisting the Financialization of Housing

Edited by Pascal Glanz, Johannes Jäger, Agnes Sieben, Elisabeth Springler and Stefanie Wöhl

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Abstract: This insightful book explores the highly contextual nature of resistance to the financialization of housing. Examining global housing systems, it highlights the difficulty of transferring strategies across regions, and explains why financialization is used as an umbrella term for numerous distinct processes.

Keywords: Financialization Of Housing; Global Housing Crisis; Social Housing Movements; Urban Uneven Development; Progressive Housing Policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035379637
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Resisting the financialization of housing: an overview

Pascal Glanz, Johannes Jäger, Agnes Sieben, Elisabeth Springler and Stefanie Wöhl

Ch 2 Resisting financialization of housing: why Vienna is relatively successful

Johannes Jäger and Elisabeth Springler

Ch 3 The Right to Buy or the Right to a Home? The English housing conundrum

Abi O’Connor and Gareth Fearn

Ch 4 Assets of state capitalism: housing and de-financialization in China

Asa Roast and Yunpeng Zhang

Ch 5 Unhousing peripheral monopoly capital: class power and the struggle for (urban) de-financialization in Chile

Michael Lukas and David Kornbluth

Ch 6 Selling out the city: property rights as a locus of class struggle in post-austerity Lisbon

Shawn Nichols

Ch 7 A tale of two cities: social movements for affordable housing in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main

Pascal Glanz and Stefanie Wöhl

Ch 8 Housing as a site of financialised accumulation in Amsterdam: critique and radical alternatives

Angela Wigger

Ch 9 The financialisation of housing in Spain: between dispossession and resistance

Mònica Clua-Losada

Ch 10 Informal housing strategies and multiproperty dynamics in Cochabamba's urban periphery

Agnes Sieben and Juan E. Cabrera

Ch 11 Financialization, housing shortage and lack of affordability: multiple challenges for the Ghanaian housing market

Elisabeth Springler

Ch 12 Peripheral condition of the Croatian housing system vs. the local history of self-management housing relations in Yugoslavia

Iva Marčetić

Ch 13 Housing cooperatives resisting financialization? Lessons from Hungary

Márton Czirfusz and Csaba Jelinek

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