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Episode 1229

The housing crisis is global / Deborah Potts

Sep 16 2020

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Deborah Potts

A slow-onset disaster: Understanding the global housing crisis.

Deborah Potts examines the roots and consequences of the global housing crisis - beyond supply and demand, the sharp rise in urban housing prices around the world is linked to the destruction of post-WW2 social democracy and the commodification and financialization of housing, and can only be u

Deborah is author of the book Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis from Zed Books.

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