General
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Topic outline
- General
- Consolidating Knowledge
Consolidating Knowledge
In the beginning of this chapter, we provided some further background on the meaning of precarious housing, while the latter part deals with the dynamics of the financialization of housing. Have a look at this exercise to check your knowledge of the main points.
This assignment includes several questions invoking further reflection on different forms of student housing presented in the chapter.
- Listening in
Listening in
In this podcast episode, we discuss the financialization of housing with Dr. Manuel B. Aalbers, Professor of Geography at KU Leuven who has been researching and publishing on the financialization of housing. He talks about his take on the processes and actors behind financialization and its implications for different groups and in different contexts.
This episode of the Urban Political podcast explores the attempt to introduce a rent cap in Berlin, including the difficulties of rising rents, the effects of the rent cap and the implications of the court decision that the Berlin government did not have the right to introduce the rent cap.
This episode of the Urban Political Podcast deals with protests ensuing after the court decision overturning Berlin's rent cap. It discusses the aims and ideas of the campaign 'Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen' to reinvent the local housing market, including for example strategies of de-privatization.
This episode of the Design and the City podcast explores the project of Haus der Statistik as a challenge to the increasing financialization and commercialization of property in Berlin.
This episode of the Common Ground podcast explores the increasing housing shortage in German Cities. Host Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson discusses with housing activist Thomas McGath of Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen und Co; Barbara Steenbergen, head of the EU Liaison Office of the International Union of Tenants and Konstantin Kholodilin, senior economist at the German Institute for Economic Research.
- Getting active
Getting active
In this assignment you will get acquainted with the online database of the EU-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) by carrying out some analyses on your own.
In the chapter, we introduced several actors who are relevant for providing housing. We now invite you to have a look at your own regional context.
Is it possible to distinguish between 'evil' and 'benevolent' financialization and are there viable alternatives to the finanzialization of housing? Have a look at different forms of providing housing and build your own opinion on the nature of financialization.
We invite you to watch the documentary Push of Fredrik Gertten (2019) and on this basis reflect on some of the central issues and questions related to precarious housing. The questions we provide can be used either for a writing task or as a basis for a class discussion.
In this assignment, you will be asked to look for a new apartment in Amsterdam given different situations. Then you will be asked to reflect on how each situation impacted your options and overall experience.
In this chapter, we talked about several issues associated with the increasing commercialization of housing, and the adverse effects of policy changes over the last four decades. In this assignment, you will be asked to recommend a policy that addresses a housing-related problem in your city.
Get to know the history of the construction, settlement, and impact of London’s Grenfell Tower and Veszprém’s “Towering Inferno”. As you read through the sources, answer the questions provided.
- Digging Deeper
Digging Deeper
This case study discusses the Dutch social housing context and the dynamics relating to Vestia, the largest housing association in the Netherlands, its investment tactics and issues relating to the financial crisis as well as implications for social renters.
This case study discusses a Venetian initiative promoting the rental of touristic accomodation to university students during the pandemic as well as the future prospect of this initiative beyond the return of tourism.
EU-SILC contains data on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions.
This page points you to literature linked to the main themes of this chapter.
This website is coordinated by Arena for Journalism in Europe and includes different data sets and articles around the topic of corporate landlords. The aim is to contribute towards more cross-border research into the crisis of housing affordability in European cities and effects on people’s lives.
This article explores the growing phenomenon of young people in the UK renting in the private sector for longer periods of their lives because they cannot afford homeownership, and are unable to access social housing.
a Ted Talk about shifting power back to home renters in NYC. Housing shortages in the US are remarkably similar to European cities, and offer an additional perspective to the global housing financialization trend. The talk is given by American housing advocate Yale Fox.
This paper connects debates within the generation rent literature with more recent work on housing precarity, or the uncertainty arising from the experience of insecure, unaffordable and poor-quality housing.