Grappling with Housing Capital, Critical Planning Journal, vol. 24: Spaces of Struggle (2019)
This response paper grapples with the financialization of housing-as-capital, through several texts on housing and political economy that are instrumental to discussions on radical planning and exclusionary urban developments, but have not been widely read in the architecture, building and planning disciplines. Using these texts as key interlocutors, the paper is structured into three “moments”— Property Boundaries, Household Debt, and Investment Vehicles—each presenting specific reflections and questions that deal with housing capital as a significant and multivariate space of struggle. The paper ends on three brief propositions which radically speculate on disassembling the housing economy straitjacket of inequality, themselves provocations for further debate and discussion.
