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Changes in Housing and Property under the Austerity Regime in Greece
Challenges for Movements and the Left
Erschienen in: Edition Gegenstand und Raum 8: Urban Austerity – Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Cities in Europe (04/2016)
1. Introduction
Especially since 2008, housing has emerged once again as a key terrain of contradiction and conflict. The field is very much related to the roots of the global financial crisis (especially due to the scale of housing finance); however, it is also one of its most dramatic consequences and of particular strategic importance to the processes of capital recovery (Harvey, 2012). The abrupt destabilization of previous welfare and...
