HOUSING TERRITORIES AND THE FINANCIALIZATION OF THE CITY

a brief introduction to the discussion

Abstract

The issue of housing and the financialization of the city has gained greater notability in contemporary times as the territories of metropolitan and non-metropolitan cities have been deeply impacted by the advance of financialization on a planetary scale. Whether as social demand, shelter, resource, or a monetary commodity, the spaces of housing and the demands for them fray the financialization of the city, contributing to the expansion of differentiation and socio-spatial inequalities, between new and old forms of living and inhabiting the territories of the cities. Considering the breadth and complexity of the respective debate, this essay aims to briefly explain the issue of dwelling and housing from a territorial perspective, therefore geographic, taking into account the housing financialization in the contemporary period. This paper also examines interweaving and correlations amongst territory, housing, and urban financialization, It also unravels some paths associated with territories and urban territorialities in a context of hegemony of financialized capitalism.