“Value Grabbing”: A Political Ecology of Rent

By Diego Andreucci, Melissa García-Lamarca, J. Wedekind, E. Swyngedouw. 2017

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The financialization of Canadian multi-family rental housing: From trailer to tower (2020, background): “In the neoliberal era, capital increasingly accumulates by dispossession (Harvey, 2003), a process that centers, according to Andreucci et al. (2017), on the transfer of property rights.”
Automated landlord: Digital technologies and post-crisis financial accumulation (2019, background): “…and intelligent and automated workflow management techniques, large-scale investors have selectively re-aggregated repossessed homes and coordinated operational processes so as to “grab value” (Andreucci et al., 2017) by re-opening spaces of financial accumulation in the wake of crisis.”
Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism (2020, background): “…certainly core to the contemporary political economy of rent that extends well beyond the extraction of value from land and indebted households (Andreucci et al., 2017; Ouma et al., 2018), assets are also at the heart of the logics, techniques and practices of investment which are…”
The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism (2020, background): “This makes sense considering the materialist approach taken to issues such as the governance of land, distribution of resources, and interconnection of social, environmental, and technological systems (Andreucci et al. 2017; Loftus 2009; Monstadt 2009).”