Future Tense
Big corporations are taking over as landlords and it's further fuelling the global housing crisis
May 2, 2024
The podcast discusses the impact of big corporations buying up housing stocks on the global housing crisis, with over 100 million people homeless and 1.6 billion lacking adequate housing. It explores the rise of corporate landlords in the rental market, challenges the narrative blaming generations for the crisis, highlights innovative mortgage ideas, addresses income inequality and neighborhood segregation, and explores challenges faced by elderly Australians in the private rental sector.
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- Corporations buying housing stocks worsen global housing crisis, affecting social fabric of countries.
- Corporate landlords reshape property ownership, increase rents, evict tenants, and impact affordability and local markets.
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Financialisation and Corporatisation of Housing
The podcast discusses the financialisation and corporatisation of housing, where single-family rental homes have become financial products bundled up for global investors. The 2008 mortgage crisis created opportunities for large-scale investors to acquire and rent out single-family homes, leading to increased consolidation of rental ownership by financial actors.
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