Gentrification, suburban decline, and the financialization of multi-family rental housing: The case of Toronto

By Martine August, Alan Walks. 2017

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Urban Studies

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Automated landlord: Digital technologies and post-crisis financial accumulation (2019, background): “…and severity of the 2008 crisis, housing assets today remain “foundational” for strategies of financial accumulation (Allon and Barrett, 2018: 125), though such strategies now extend to rental housing more than they did a decade ago (August and Walks, 2018; Fields, 2018; Wijburg et al., 2018).”
The de-financialization of housing: towards a research agenda (2020, background): “…(and sometimes securitized) homeownership (Fernandez and Aalbers, 2016), the rise of institutional corporate landlords in the private rental sector (August and Walks, 2018; Charles, 2019), the (transnational) investment practices of ‘super-rich’ or middle-class investors (Fernandez et al., 2016;…”
Build-to-Rent and the financialization of rental housing: future research directions (2020, background): “…to midsized companies took an interest in developing rental apartments then, as the investor appeal of multifamily diminished in the 1970s and 1980s, development of private and subsidized rental apartments continued at a reduced rate, backed by new federal subsidies (see August & Walks, 2018).”
The financialization of Canadian multi-family rental housing: From trailer to tower (2020, background): “The TPA included a loophole for “above-guideline increases” (AGIs), allowing landlords to pass along the costs of tax increases, security improvements, and major capital repairs to tenants.”
Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and tourism-driven displacement: A case study in Lisbon (2019, methodology): “In this regard, Airbnb plays an important role in a process described by others (August and Walks, 2018; Beswick et al., 2016; Fields and Uffer, 2016; Janoschka et al., 2019; Paccoud, 2017; Wijburg et al., 2018), whereby rental housing has become a new financial asset in the wake of the 2008…”