Resources
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The Uneven Racialized Impacts of Financialization
The term “financialization” has significant utility in describing the finance-led housing accumulation that has transformed housing ecosystems in urban rental markets in Canada and beyond. Missing from the discourse, however,...
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Housing Financialization: The International Landscape
The international housing landscape is increasingly financialized, and this presents an urgent challenge to the realization of the human right to adequate housing. To better understand this phenomenon, this report...
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The Financialization of Seniors’ Housing in Canada
The financialization of seniors’ housing refers to the ownership and/or operation of long-term care homes and retirement residences by companies with a mandate to maximize returns for external shareholders. As...
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The Impact of Financialization on Tenants
ACORN Canada worked with the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate and researchers to better understand how financialization affects tenants, especially those tenants who are facing disproportionate barriers to housing....
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The Financialization of Multi-Family Rental Housing in Canada
This report presents an overview of the financialization of rental housing in Canada. After describing the phenomenon of financialization in general terms, it considers the current state of financialization in...