Resisting the Financialization of Housing

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

• Contents1 Resisting the financialization of housing: an overview 1Pascal Glanz, Johannes Jäger, Agnes Sieben, ElisabethSpringler and Stefanie WöhlPART I DEFENDING INSTITUTIONS TO RESIST THEFINANCIALIZATION OF HOUSING2 Resisting financialization of housing: why Vienna isrelatively successful 13Johannes Jäger and Elisabeth Springler3 The Right to Buy or the Right to a Home? The Englishhousing conundrum 28Abi O’Connor and Gareth Fearn4 Assets of state capitalism: housing andde-financialization in China 43Asa Roast and Yunpeng ZhangPART II DISRUPTING THE LEGAL INFRASTRUCTUREOF FINANCIALIZATION OF HOUSING5 Unhousing peripheral monopoly capital: Class powerand the struggle for (urban) de-financialization in Chile 58Michael Lukas and David Kornbluth6 Selling out the city: property rights as a locus of classstruggle in post-austerity Lisbon 73Shawn Nichols7 A tale of two cities: social movements for affordablehousing in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main 86Pascal Glanz and Stefanie WöhlPART III UNDOING THE FINANCIALIZATION OFHOUSING FROM BELOW8 Housing as a site of financialised accumulation inAmsterdam: critique and radical alternatives 101Angela Wigger9 The financialisation of housing in Spain: betweendispossession and resistance 115Mònica Clua-Losada10 Informal housing strategies and multiproperty dynamicsin Cochabamba’s urban periphery 129Agnes Sieben and Juan E. Cabrera11 Financialization, housing shortage and lack ofaffordability: multiple challenges for the Ghanaianhousing market 143Elisabeth Springler12 Peripheral condition of the Croatian housing system vs.the local history of self-management housing relationsin Yugoslavia 154Iva Marčetić13 Housing cooperatives resisting financialization? Lessonsfrom Hungary 168Márton Czirfusz and Csaba Jelinek

‘This excellent book provides a grounded, compelling, and lucid analysis of resisting financial domination in everyday life, across key regions in both the global North and South. It will be indispensable reading for activists and scholars seeking to understand and challenge one of the most complex and pressing social issues of contemporary capitalism.’