La información de fondo – Global Housing Debt

“Affordable housing” and “social housing”: new ways of public housing privatization and financialization in Europe

by Enikő Vincze, Căși sociale ACUM!

on November 24, 2019

The housing crises During the decade following the 2008 global financial crises, international organizations with a fundamental role in shaping financial and development policies – such as the European Commission,… Read more …

A short overview of Public Housing in the Netherlands.

by Kees Hudig

on October 24, 2019

In preparation of a workshop of the ‘militant research’ network on the socialisation of housing) for the retakethe.city event in Amsterdam October 25… There is no other country that has… Read more …

Trade Unions, the far right, and housing

by Kees Stad

on June 14, 2019

At the Berlin meeting (june 2019) of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City () this conference of European Trade Unions was mentioned, where European… Read more …

CALL: Socialise Housing across Europe!

by By undersigning groups and persons.

on April 21, 2019

The worsening housing problems in European cities are an important part of the general EU crisis. The EU treaties guarantee the free movement of capital (Art. 26 & 63 TFEU),… Read more …

Explaining financialisation and housing

by Kees Stad

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 …

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 …

Hacking the housing system: cooperative alternatives to housing corporations

by Jorge DS

of Amsterdam Alternative

on September 20, 2018

“Rental and housing prices in Amsterdam are expected to drop and become affordable for everyone in the next coming years.” Said no one, ever. The housing crisis and capitalism It… 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 …