Vol. 48 No. 191 (2018): The (New) Housing Question

To find affordable housing has become virtually impossible for many people in Germany today. Despite new instruments of rent control announced in 2013, real estate prices and rents have continued to rise. This ultimately unsuccessful, half-hearted reform effort shows that there are much more fundamental problems and dynamics at play which cannot be resolved by partial price regulations. Against this background, PROKLA 191 presents empirical case studies and theoretical contributions which explore the political and economic drivers behind the return of the ‘housing question’ in the context of financialisation, neoliberalism and the global overaccumulation of capital.