Why Can't You Afford a Home?
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- Hardcover
140 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2018
Summary
Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh Ryan-Collins argues that to understand this crisis, we must examine a crucial paradox at the heart of modern capitalism. The interaction of private home ownership and a lightly regulated commercial banking system leads to a feedback cycle. Unlimited c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509523252 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509523251 |
| Series: | The Future of Capitalism |
| Author: | Josh Ryan-Collins |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 140 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 188mm x 125mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“In this excellent book, Josh Ryan-Collins shows that unaffordable housing is not part of nature, and how a number of countries have broken what the author aptly calls the housing-financial cycle, by de-linking land pricing from mortgage-debt pyramiding.”—Michael Hudson, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
“Why can’t you afford to buy a home? It’s not because of too many smashed avocadoes, or too little land, but too much bank lending. Josh Ryan-Collins clearly explains how bank lending for speculation has made housing inaccessible, and how to tame the beast of finance.”—Steve Keen, University of Kingston, author of Debunking Economics
“This book is the best short introduction I’ve seen to a burgeoning literature on housing and financialisation”—Inside Housing
“Why Can’t You Afford a Home? is a short, readable and valuable book…. It makes a convincing set of arguments that explain much of our current housing crisis.”—Irish Times
About The Author
Josh Ryan-Collins
Josh Ryan-Collins is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London.
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