Kees Stad

Explaining financialisation and housing

on April 4, 2019

The first meeting in the new office of (neighborhood center) Wijkcentrum d’Oude Stadt hosted a debate on “understanding financialisation”. Rodrigo Fernandez explained what financialisation is, how it works in relation… Read more …

April 6 international action day on housing

by Kees Stad

on April 2, 2019

On April 6 demonstrations or other actions are being held in many European cities “against housing costs madness and evictions”. In the Netherlands the street is also taken by demonstrators… Read more …

Just out: Brochure Housing financialization

by European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City

on March 8, 2019

Housing financialization, Brochure of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City… Read more …

Berlin residents want expropriation of large housing companies

by Kees Stad

on January 30, 2019

In Germany, some of Europe’s largest residential property companies have emerged, which have bought up homes on a massive scale to rent them out as expensive as possible. Tenants and… Read more …

Expensive housing is the source of social anger

by DAL federation

on December 14, 2018

Dec. 10, 2018, By DAL federation Housing is the largest and most important item of household spending in recent decades. However, this central question on purchasing power, raised by yellow… Read more …

The state and the privatisation of housing

by Kees Stad

on November 5, 2018

One of the greatest myths upheld by advocates of neoliberal capitalism is that corporations and their owners prefer to operate in an environment with as little state involvement and influence… Read more …

Author: Kees Stad