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Climate Crisis

Rubén Martínez – How Housing Speculation Created Environmental Crisis in Spain

April 1, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘The floods that hit Spain last year were more than just a natural disaster. They were exacerbated by housing developers who built homes in the most flood-prone areas.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.

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Inequality

Paul Hickman, Kesia Reeve – ‘We’d just switch everything off’: six in ten social housing tenants go without essentials to pay rent

February 11, 2025 Ben Wray 0

A sad indictment of 21st century England. Paul Hickman is Professor of Housing and Social Policy at Sheffield Hallam University. Kesia Reeve is Principal Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University. Cross-posted from The Conversation The social […]

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Deregulation

Richard Matoušek – In Lisbon, Residents Seek a Vote on Banning Airbnb

August 12, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘In Lisbon, soaring tourism has turned tens of thousands of apartments into Airbnbs, pushing out ordinary renters. A referendum on banning short-term rentals in residential buildings could change that.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.

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Finance

Euronews: Low-income Europeans face hard times in housing cost struggle

April 22, 2024 Ben Wray 0

“ECB research shows that more than one-fourth of low-income households expect late payments on their mortgages in the coming months.” In EuroNews. Read the article HERE.

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Economics

Grace Blakeley: Property Developer Patriotism

March 4, 2024 Ben Wray 0

“The irony of Keir Starmer’s plan for a ‘patriotic economy’ is that it relies on corporate developers to enrich shareholders, many of which don’t pay their taxes in Britain.” In Tribune. Read the article HERE.

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Climate Crisis

Julieta Perucca – Green housing threatens affordability. But it doesn’t have to.

September 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Attempt to reduce carbon emissions from housing risk running into multiple ‘Yellow Vest’ moments unless housing is made a social good, not a for-profit asset. Julieta Perucca is an experienced human rights advocate, previously working […]

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Finance

Martha Dillon: The risks and rewards of AI in the housing system

August 21, 2023 Ben Wray 0

AI is changing the way we manage homes and buildings. While AI could have positive effects on housing, it could also speed up its financialisation. Martha Dillon is Housing Policy Lead at Positive Money. Her […]

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Economics

Michael Marshall: The dynamics of conflict and distance in financialised affordable housing

May 31, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Speculation in low-income housing by an opaque investment community has produced new housing conflicts, but also new tactics among activists. Michael Marshall is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning at […]

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Deregulation

Ben Wray: In San Sebastian, the unpropertied have nothing to lose but their rip-off tenancies

May 26, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Basque coastal hotspot San Sebastian is the most expensive city in Spain; a virtual feeding frenzy for rentier capitalism that is driving away its young people. The Basque Government, however, remains unmoved Ben Wray […]

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Deregulation

Loren Balhorn: Order Prevails

March 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A look at the municipal politics of Berlin, where hopes have been dashed that a referendum win in 2021 would bring a breakthrough on the rent problem. Read the article HERE.

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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