The second episode of the series “Cities engaging in the Right to Housing” explores the financial sector’s influence on housing. In this podcast, Raquel Rolnik, professor at the University of São Paolo and former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing describes the process of housing financialization and invokes policies to counter its influence and to secure affordable housing.
“We can learn from the measures that we saw at the beginning of the pandemic: those interventions in the private housing market, with rent freezes and regulations, were unthinkable before. They created a political opening”
“It is important to provide housing that is literally out of the financialised market. But it is also very important to intervene in the private housing market, instead of leaving it as it is.”
“Rental is a form, home ownership is another form, collective ownership another one. It is very important to support all these forms of tenure, in order also to support the initiative of the people themselves. This should be a very integral part of any social agenda now, during and after the pandemic.”
