The forum will focus on current housing and land policy problems as well as their main causes. The problems differ from country to country and are reflected in drastic deficits in affordable housing and unsustainable mortgage rates for homeowners, in the displacement of long-established tenants and rising numbers of homeless people, especially in areas of high population density and economically attractive medium-sized and university cities. The main reasons for this are private ownership of land, the current low interest rate phase, the financialisation of the real estate sector and its increasing relevance for the exploitative interests of investors, as well as the investor-oriented policies of the public sector and the privatisation of public housing stocks.

Michael Tellmann
Ingrid Hoffmann
Tabea Latocha
Philipp Metzger
Eva Betavatzi
David M. Zarra Dopazo
Laura Barrio Recio
Lina María Hoyos Rojas
Marie Huiban

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