Financialisation of housing
The actors and strategies behind housing wealth accumulation.
Housing - Wealth - Nexus
The Housing-Wealth-Nexus: the new inequality paradigm and policies for positive change
An international research network investigating the links between housing, wealth, and inequality.
Concept
Housing appreciation has emerged as a powerful engine of wealth accumulation.
The Housing-Wealth Nexus starts from a simple proposition: housing has become one of the central mechanisms through which wealth is accumulated, reproduced, and transmitted. Understanding contemporary housing crises therefore requires moving beyond questions of affordability alone to examine how housing markets produce new forms of wealth inequality.
The Housing-Wealth Nexus explores how this transformation is reshaping housing markets, social stratification, and cities across different geographical contexts, while identifying pathways towards more equitable housing futures.
Network
A cross-sectoral research network connecting organisations across Europe, North America, and South America.
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Academic institutions
Leading urban studies and housing research faculties across Europe and beyond.
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Research centres
Independent bodies generating evidence on financialisation and inequality.
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Social movements
Housing-rights organisations grounding research in lived experience.
Research
Three lines of inquiry.
Housing wealth and inequality
The unequal distribution of housing wealth and social stratification.
Policies for positive change
Evidence-based recommendations for equitable housing futures.