financialization
Platform capitalism and short term rentals are boosting housing commodification and urban financialization. Worldwide, struggles for the right to housing and the city are fighting back, expanding knowledge and building tools to address the impacts of temporary rentals. I talked about this with Katalin Gennburg, Member of Die Linke in the Berlin House of Representatives, philosopher and researcher of urban…
Burning Farm, June 2024 A growing number of people are facing a shortage of affordable and adequate housing. The gap between salaries and housing costs has widened over the past decades as housing costs and real estate values increased, also thanks the residualization neglect of public housing and to a shift in public policies ultimately aimed at creating the framework…