Today, processes of ‘accumulation by dispossession’ and ever-increasing enclosures are accelerating, commodifying and privatising more land, water, and forests, and expelling peasant populations and low-income classes from urban centres. With neoliberal capitalism, we have witnessed an extraordinary increase in wealth and income inequalities, significantly driven by the financialisation of real estate and housing (Harvey, 2005; 2012; Madden & Marcuse, 2016; Rolnik, 2019; Stein, 2019). The financialisation of housing has made ownership increasingly unaffordable. In contrast, the privatisation of social housing and dismantling of rent control legislation have rendered rental accommodation increasingly precarious, leading to the forced displacement of previous residents. Neoliberal capitalism has accelerated the privatisation of state assets and services as well as of information and knowledge (Christophers, 2018; Harvey, 2012; Rolnik, 2019; Sassen, 2014).

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• Social and Economic Geography - Social Sciences
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• Anthropology - Social Sciences

This publication is an output of the following project(s):

• Care(4)Housing - A care through design approach to address housing precarity in Portugal