Rory Hearne is a Lecturer in Social Policy at Maynooth University, Ireland.

• Foreword: Special Rapporteur for Housing ~ Leilani Farhi; Introduction: a new housing crisis; Generation Rent; Homelessness: the most extreme inequality;The normalisation of homelessness;Working for social justice: community, activism and academia; The neoliberal roots of the current crisis;The new waves of financialisation: vultures and REITs; Inequality and financialisation;The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation; The people push back: protests for affordable homes for all;The right to an affordable, secure and decent home for all;A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all.

Rory Hearne is a Lecturer in Social Policy at Maynooth University, Ireland.

• Foreword: Special Rapporteur for Housing ~ Leilani Farhi; Introduction: a new housing crisis; Generation Rent; Homelessness: the most extreme inequality;The normalisation of homelessness;Working for social justice: community, activism and academia; The neoliberal roots of the current crisis;The new waves of financialisation: vultures and REITs; Inequality and financialisation;The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation; The people push back: protests for affordable homes for all;The right to an affordable, secure and decent home for all;A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all.

Rory Hearne is a Lecturer in Social Policy at Maynooth University, Ireland.

• Foreword: Special Rapporteur for Housing ~ Leilani Farhi; Introduction: a new housing crisis; Generation Rent; Homelessness: the most extreme inequality;The normalisation of homelessness;Working for social justice: community, activism and academia; The neoliberal roots of the current crisis;The new waves of financialisation: vultures and REITs; Inequality and financialisation;The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation; The people push back: protests for affordable homes for all;The right to an affordable, secure and decent home for all;A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all.