Right to Housing and Economic Crisis: Housing as a Problema in the Current Economic Crisis

Authors

  • Eva García Pérez
  • Michael Janoschka

Keywords:

Housing, public policies, crisis, accumulation by dispossession, transnational investment funds

Abstract

Housing is a complex, multi-layered problem that requires both historical, social, economic
and financial approaches, together with legal aspects and its strong political dimension, to be
successfully understood. This article will contribute to such comprehension with a study of housing
and macroeconomic policies in its different aspects, for the Spanish and European cases, that
points out the main contradictions and lacks of previous decades. After that, taking into account the
impacts of the economic crisis and the conformation of the social problem of housing, we examine
how housing went from being object of accumulation to become the trigger of wide processes of
dispossession. Finally, we focus on current policies, dedicated to promote a new wave of
liberalisation and financialization of housing, and conclude with a reflection about the role of
housing in contemporary Spanish society.

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Published

2016-06-29

How to Cite

García Pérez, E., & Janoschka, M. (2016). Right to Housing and Economic Crisis: Housing as a Problema in the Current Economic Crisis. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 48(188), 213–228. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76475

Issue

Vol. XLVIII, núm. 188 Monográfico (2016). Crisis, gobiernos locales y políticas urbanas

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2016 Eva García Pérez, Michael Janoschka

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