Financialisation of housing
How housing is transformed into a global investment asset.
Housing · Wealth · Nexus
The Housing Wealth Nexus: the new inequality paradigm
Policies for positive change — an international research network examining housing as a vehicle of accumulation that reproduces urban inequality.
01 — Concept
A dynamic field of relations, not a fixed object.
The visual and research identity of the project reflects its core concern: housing as a vehicle of accumulation that reproduces urban inequality. The central symbol is built on a metaball logic — interconnected forms that evoke networks, flows and systems of accumulation.
Its fluid yet structured composition translates the idea of a "nexus": interconnected nodes suggesting the project's own collaborative structure, bringing together an international network of academic institutions, research centres and social movements.
02 — Network
A collaborative structure spanning four kinds of partners.
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Academic institutions
Leading urban studies and housing research faculties across Europe and beyond.
02
Research centres
Independent bodies generating evidence on financialisation and inequality.
03
Social movements
Tenant unions and housing-rights organisations grounding research in lived experience.
04
Policymakers
Public institutions translating findings into housing and fiscal policy.
03 — Research
Three lines of inquiry.
Urban inequality & segregation
Mapping how accumulation reshapes access to the city.
Policies for positive change
Evidence-based recommendations for equitable housing systems.