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Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance

Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance

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How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis

The most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts how the financial crisis and wider urban politics have left millions homeless and in financial desperation across the world.

The financialization of housing has become a global catastrophe, leaving millions desperate and homeless. Since the 2008 financial collapse, models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. Using examples from across the globe, Rolnik shows how our cities have been sold to construction companies and banks, while supported by government-facilitated schemes, such as “the right to buy” subsidies and micro-financing. Our homes and neighbourhoods have become the “last subprime frontiers of capitalism,” organised by those who benefit the most.

Author(s): Raquel Rolnik and Gabriel Hirschhorn
Publication year: 2019
Publication date: 2019-03-26
Pages: 384
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 9781788731607
Dimensions: 15.24 x 2.79 x 23.37 cm
Weight: 0.58 kg
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