Displacement and Gentrification

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through brisk, unequivocating analysis andstriking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing andcollective action, finally rebalance the scales.

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration- the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Valley, Noelle Stout uncovers the predacious bureaucracy that organized the largest bank seizure of residential homes in U.S. history. Stout reveals the failure of Wall Street banks' mortgage assistance programs--backed by over $300 billion of federal funds--to deliver on the promise of relief. Unlike the programs of the Great Depression, in which the government took on the toxic mortgage debt of Americans, corporate lenders and loan servicers ultimately denied over 70 percent of homeowner applications.

Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property relations and settler colonialism inform contemporary urban (re)development efforts and impacts affordable housing loss.

This Handbook analyses the fundamentals underlying all Green New Deals as well as exploring national and regional variations. Book chapter titled "Cities and the Green New Deal: Addressing the financialization of urban production."

Focuses on rental housing, especially in Southern California.

How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis The most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts how the financial crisis and wider urban politics have left millions homeless and in financial desperation across the world.