Urban warfare: housing under the empire of finance
Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part I; 1. The Global Financialisation of Housing; 2. The Mortgage System; 3. Exporting the Model; 4. Post-Crisis Measures: More of the Same?; 5. The Demand-Side Subsidies Model; 6. Microfinance: The Last Frontier; Part II; 7. Tenure Insecurity; 8. From Enclosures to Foreclosures; 9. Informal, Illegal, Ambiguous; 10. Private Property, Contracts and the Globalised Language of Finance; 11. Insecure Tenure in the Era of Large Projects; Part III; 12. Financialisation in the Tropics