![]() ![]() Throughout In Defense of Housing the authors cite multiple references and a leave brilliant trail for the reader to do their own investigation. The builder effectively blocked the majority of people who genuinely want to live in a home for living in the same space. Advertised as luxury living with prices in the multi-million USD range it became a vehicle for people to to trade cash for space in the building with no intention of living there. The One57 building in New York was an example of commodified housing that did not deliver homes. The authors make a case for how treating housing as a real estate investment displaces people in need of homes and increases home prices. They probe the causes and consequences of treating housing like a commodity. Madden and Marcuse take up the call to arms in support of looking at housing as homes instead of real estate. ![]()
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