real estate

From the Field

The Fight for Community Ownership in Los Angeles Chinatown via the LA Chinatown CLT

Amy Zhou - 8 July 2025

Community land trusts are one strategy to stem displacement due to real-estate speculation in Chinatowns across North...

Essays

Settling on the Financial Periphery: Alternative Housing Practices in Hegang, China

Yimeng Yang - 17 June 2025

Can valuing a home for its use value constitute a form of resistance to housing financialization? Considering the...

From the Field

Argentina: The Rental Issue in the Milei Era | Argentina: la problemática del alquiler en la era Milei

Nicolás A. Trivi - 29 April 2025

In Argentina, the reforms promoted by the libertarian government represent an offensive of capital on labor. Nicolás...

Debates

When Rising Expectations Meet Rising Reaction: New York’s 2024 Housing Policy Fight and the Prospects for the Future

Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein - 10 September 2024

How did New York housing policy fare with Democratic control of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of...

From the Field

Digital Technology and the City: New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town?

Julien Migozzi & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 June 2023

In the age of platform capitalism, how is digital technology reconfiguring real-estate markets and access to housing?...

Reviews

New York City’s Descent into Neoliberal Policy: A Review of Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis

John Krinsky - 19 July 2022

Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis tells the story of New York’s prolonged descent into neoliberal policy. For those...

Debates

Depending on a Curse: What History Tells Us About Property-Tax Reform in New York City

Daniel Wortel-London - 12 July 2022

Daniel Wortel-London discusses New York’s discriminatory policies and taxes and asks: can a tax system as cumbersome...

Essays

A Global Right-to-Housing Movement Versus Financialization

Jaime Jover - 23 June 2021

Financialization enables a wealthy transnational class to accumulate capital through land, enhances inequalities...

Series

Cities in the Age of Financialization

Martine Drozdz & Antoine Guironnet & Ludovic Halbert & translated by James Christopher Mizes & Oliver Waine - 18 June 2021

Over the past four decades, the financialization of capitalism has transformed economies, societies, and urban space....

Reviews

“Land Is the New Sugar”: A Review of Sai Balakrishnan’s Shareholder Cities

Thomas Crowley - 15 December 2020

Shareholder Cities argues that India’s urban corridors are driven by complex negotiations, transformations, and power...

From the Field

The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”

Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher - 1 December 2020

Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...

From the Field

Fragile Financialization: The Struggle for Power and Control in Indian Real-Estate Investment

Llerena Guiu Searle - 27 November 2020

How does the financialization of real estate—a global phenomenon—affect urban development in India? In this...

Essays

The House is Ours: How Moms 4 Housing Challenged the Private-Property Paradigm

Lauren Everett - 6 October 2020

In the midst of a global housing affordability crisis that has been heightened by the Covid‑19 pandemic, it is time...

Debates

Reclaim Value Capture for Equitable Urban Development

Laura Wolf-Powers - 28 May 2019

Land-value capture (LVC) mechanisms have become a popular tool for fiscally constrained municipal policymakers....

Debates

The Limits of the Accepted Orthodoxy on Rent Control

Loïc Bonneval & François Robert & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 March 2019

In response to a recent critique of their work, Loïc Bonneval and François Robert defend their method and results. In...

Debates

Does Rent Control Prevent Investment in Real Estate?

Loïc Bonneval & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 February 2019

While rent-control measures kept private rental housing in France affordable for much of the 20th century, it has...

From the Field

The Actually Existing Markets of Shrinking Cities

Joshua Akers - 18 April 2017

In a bid to halt urban decline, Michigan’s state government sought to create incentives for the creation of urban...

Reviews

Restless Cities

Laura Wolf-Powers - 25 October 2016

The world of downtown real-estate development seems to have a life of its own, independent of demand for space and...

Reviews

Dawn of the Indebted: Zombie Neoliberalism Hits the Big Screen

Desiree Fields & Tom Gillespie - 8 March 2016

As the tremors of the 2008 crumbling US housing market were felt around the world, even the most astute couldn’t have...

Debates

Artists and Industry: Friends or Foes?

Paul Parkhill - 3 November 2015

Anti-gentrification activists have castigated artists’ lofts as the vanguard of gentrification, while cities have...

Debates

New York’s de Blasio bargains with FIRE

Tom Waters - 16 June 2015

Frantic deal-making over an obscure but costly New York City real-estate tax incentive (421‑a) provides a window into...

From the Field

Vancouverism: hybridisation and spread of an urban model

Nicolas Douay & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 June 2015

The transformation that downtown Vancouver has undergone – which has since become a reference, known as...

Debates

Rent control: a miracle solution to the housing crisis?

Jean Bosvieux & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 November 2012

The sharp rise in housing costs in France since the end of the 1990s has generated much debate on the subject of rent...

Debates

Why isn’t there enough housing in France?

Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 January 2012

The idea that France is experiencing a serious housing deficit, requiring a massive home-building policy is the...

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