Resisting the financialization of housing : global perspectives and alternatives / edited by Pascal Glanz (research assistant and lecturer of economics), Johannes Jäger (professor of economics), Agnes Sieben (research assistant), Elisabeth Springler (professor of economics) and Stefanie Wöhl (professor of politics, University of Applied Sciences, BFI Vienna, Austria).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glanz, Pascal, editor.

Jäger, Johannes, editor.

Sieben, Agnes, editor.

Springler, Elisabeth, editor.

Wöhl, Stefanie, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing--Economic aspects.

Housing.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"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. Leading experts assess a variety of 'culprits' behind the financialization of housing, evaluating the role of institutions, social movements, grass roots initiatives and broader economic contexts. They advocate for an integrated method of analyzing these entry points and argue that stages of financialization must be understood as multi-level processes. Drawing on critical political economy and post-Keynesian economics, the book ultimately calls for a wider understanding of capitalist dynamics in order to synthesize various strategies for resisting financialization. Resisting the Financialization of Housing is an essential resource for scholars and students of sociology, social policy, public policy, inequalities and sustainable development. Government policymakers and financial regulators will also benefit from its actionable recommendations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Resisting the financialization of housing: an overview / Pascal Glanz, Johannes Jäger, Agnes Sieben, Elisabeth Springler and Stefanie Wöhl

Part I: Defending Institutions To Resist The Financialization Of Housing

2. Resisting financialization of housing: why Vienna is relatively successful / Johannes Jäger and Elisabeth Springler

3. The Right to Buy or the Right to a Home? The English housing conundrum / Abi O'Connor and Gareth Fearn

4. Assets of state capitalism: housing and de-financialization in China / Asa Roast and Yunpeng Zhang

Part II: Disrupting The Legal Infrastructure Of Financialization Of Housing

5. Unhousing peripheral monopoly capital: Class power and the struggle for (urban) de-financialization in Chile / Michael Lukas and David Kornbluth

6. Selling out the city: property rights as a locus of class struggle in post-austerity Lisbon / Shawn Nichols

7. A tale of two cities: social movements for affordable housing in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main / Pascal Glanz and Stefanie Wöhl

Part III: Undoing The Financialization Of Housing From Below

8. Housing as a site of financialised accumulation in Amsterdam: critique and radical alternatives / Angela Wigger

9. The financialisation of housing in Spain: between dispossession and resistance / Mónica Clua-Losada

10. Informal housing strategies and multiproperty dynamics in Cochabamba's urban periphery / Agnes Sieben and Juan E. Cabrera

11. Financialization, housing shortage and lack of affordability: multiple challenges for the Ghanaian housing market / Elisabeth Springler

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

13. Housing cooperatives resisting financialization? Lessons from Hungary / Márton Czirfusz and Csaba Jelinek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035379644 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.