Contesting the Financialization of Urban Space: Community Organizations and the Struggle to Preserve Affordable Rental Housing in New York City

By Desiree Fields. 2015

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Build-to-Rent and the financialization of rental housing: future research directions (2020, background): “…markets and made volume purchases of older multifamily rental stock including former decommodified stock (Toronto: August & Walks, 2018; New York: Fields, 2015; Teresa, 2015; Wyly et al., 2010) as well as how institutional investors have acquired detached houses en masse for conversion to…”
Constructing a New Asset Class: Property-led Financial Accumulation after the Crisis (2018, background): “…to dynamics of power and politics beyond the formation of markets to their social and spatial effects, and how these may reinforce or alter existing power relations and instantiate struggle by those enrolled into markets (Christophers 2014a; Fields 2015; MacKenzie 2016; Garcia Lamarca forthcoming).”
Speculating on London's housing future (2016, background): “…of tenants and for housing markets in Europe are as yet unclear, but the example of Blackstone and the US experience (Call, Powell, and Heck 2014; Fields 2015; Ingliss 2015) suggests that the cost of rent and security of tenure are likely to be the first victims of this emerging ‘investment’…”
Municipal statecraft (2018, background): “More recently, ongoing states of crisis and austerity (Davidson and Ward, 2014; Peck, 2014), new forms of financialization (Weber, 2010; Fields, 2015), and diverse experiments in urban policy (Karvonen and Van Heur, 2014; Roy and Ong, 2011) have diluted local elites’ focus on growth.”
The Great Moderation, the Great Excess and the global housing crisis (2015, background): “Financialisation of housing is not limited to homeownership, but, increasingly, also affects rental housing (Aalbers, 2008; Fields, 2014; Forrest & Hirayama, 2014).”
Generation rent and the financialization of housing: a comparative exploration of the growth of the private rental sector in Ireland, the UK and Spain (2020, background): “authors have emphasized the importance of institutional investors such as private equity firms and pension funds in the wave of investment in the PRS since the global financial crisis of 2008, for example in the USA (Fields, 2018; Immergluck & Law, 2014) and Germany (Fields, 2015; Kitzmann, 2017; Wi”
The alternative financialization of the German housing market (2017, background): “…literature on the financialization of social and rental housing in Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, the UK and the US (Aalbers, 2016; Aalbers et al., in press; Bernt et al., in press; Chua, 2015; Fields, 2015; Fields & Uffer, 2016; Heeg, 2013; Uffer, 2011; Wainwright & Manville, in press).”
The Financialisation of Rental Housing 2.0: Releasing Housing into the Privatised Mainstream of Capital Accumulation (2018, background): “Private equity firms have a short-term focus (three to five years), are highly leveraged (i.e. loaded with borrowed money and little equity) and typically invest little in maintenance (Diamantis 2013; Fields 2015).”
The globalisation of real estate: the politics and practice of foreign real estate investment (2017, background): “Wealth management funds might include a portfolio of ultra-expensive residential or commercial real estate properties in cities such as London or New York (Atkinson, 2016; Fields, 2015; Harrington, 2016; Madden & Marcuse, 2016; Rogers, 2016a).”