This article brings Black feminist thought to bear on the urban geography of racialised financial violence. Our analysis focuses on the Moms 4 Housing movement. Starting when five Black mothers occupied a vacant, corporate investor-owned house in West Oakland, Moms 4 Housing claimed ownership based on relations of care while refusing the institution of private property. We frame the work of Moms 4 Housing as speculative urban worldmaking—a form of collective care and a praxis of providing an alternative present that imagines and advocates for urban futures beyond financialisation's abstract racial violence.

Financial violence is racial violence:. As such, geographies of housing financialization spatialize hierarchies of death-dealing racial difference. However, research concerned with housing financialization rarely addresses the inextricable relationship between racism and capitalism. Racial division and subordination have always been necessary to producing value in real estate; financialization reproduces racial capitalism by reconfiguring racism from racialized bodies into automated systems. We further argue that rather than reducing racially subordinated communities to experiences of oppression and domination, we must bring collective resistance for emancipatory social change into the analytic frame.

This article offers a conceptual vocabulary for critical housing scholarship on the digitization of the residential real estate industry. Platform logic highlights questions of power and politics potentially obscured by platforms’ convenience and ease of use. Digital labor underlines changing relationships among incumbent real estate professionals, investors and property owners, and tenants and residents. Financialization focuses on how digital platforms participate in the contemporary political economy of housing. We conclude with a critical research agenda for platform real estate.

How do communities understand the abstract process of housing financialization? In this paper we argue for walking tours as mobile, public education about the capitalist urbanization process, especially as the financialization of housing accelerates. Through walking the city of Manchester we show this type of learning may improve public literacy concerning how housing in central areas is being shaped by new types of real estate finance. We argue the walking tour offers new types of possibility in necessary learning and subsequent action to address capitalist urbanization.

This article centers the role of digital technologies in extending financial accumulation into new sectors of the US housing market in the post-2008 era. I argue that digital innovations coming to prominence since the 2008 crisis were the linchpin enabling large investors to acquire foreclosed single-family homes, convert them to rental housing, and roll out a new asset class based on bundled rent checks. Because technological transformations actively participate in financial accumulation strategies, I contend digital technologies also comprise a crucial terrain of struggles over housing’s place in contemporary capitalism.

This article is concerned with new modes of property-led financial accumulation emerging in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. I trace the creation of an asset class derived from securitizing the rental income of foreclosed homes turned rental properties. I emphasize the role of historical and geographic contingencies, the work of state and capital market actors, and the importance of calculative practices. The single-family rental asset class affirms the fundamental role for housing in the ideology of capital, and speaks to new entanglements of financial actors and home life as financial accumulation is adjusted to the post-crisis context.

This article advances debates about housing financialization by focusing on rental housing as a frontier for financialization, an increasingly relevant dynamic since the global financial crisis. Through tracing the connections between how rental housing has been constituted as a new site for private equity investment globally, the local conditions facilitating this process in New York and how it reshaped everyday life for tenants, I theorize tenants as unwilling subjects of financialization. This research highlights how financialization meets with dissent, and a process that is not monolithic and inevitable, but characterized by resistance from without and contradiction from within.