Raquel Rolnik: “Finance has taken over built spaces”
By | 2017
Raquel Rolnik discusses how finance has taken over built spaces in cities around the world. There has been a paradigm shift where states, through new housing policies, have dismantled the existing ones that provided social housing and regulated rent markets. Society was exposed to the international speculative game of finance, where the response of the governments to the financial crisis included the rent sector as a new frontier of financial capital, blocking people’s access to housing.