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Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it

  • Written by Dallas Rogers, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
imageThe financialisation of housing has become central to wealth creation in Australian households.Andrey_Popov from www.shutterstock.com

A recent United Nations report on the right to adequate housing identifies the financialisation of housing as an issue of global importance. It defines the financialisation of housing as:

… structural changes...

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