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J. Kadi:
"Putting Urban Housing Market Neoliberalization into Comparative Perspective";
Vortrag: Association of American Geographers, AAG, New York 2012, New York, NY; 24.02.2012 - 28.02.2012.

For some three decades neo-liberalism has dominated housing policy discourse and formation across advanced capitalist societies. In recent years, urban housing markets have emerged as key sites of market-oriented reforms. On one side, reforms of national housing regulations had their greatest impact on cities, as traditionally cities hosted a higher share of housing under public control than countries overall. On the other side, growing out of discourses about increasing inter-urban competition in times of accelerated globalization cities themselves have developed a keen interest in pushing forward the privatization of their housing stock in order to succeed in the global race for capital, investment and talent. This paper aims to address the key methodological questions for setting up a comparative study of housing neoliberalization in two cities in different regulatory contexts, New York and Amsterdam. The study is concerned with analyzing how governments at different levels of scale have changed their way of intervening in the cities' housing markets over the last two decades. After laying out epistemological assumptions regarding privatization underpinning the study the paper goes on to present a methodological approach that allows to systematically compare multi-scalar housing privatization strategies and identify similarities and differences in these strategies across cases. It concludes by arguing that a comparative perspective on urban housing market neoliberalization can shed additional light on the context-specific form of market-oriented reforms that transform cities across (advanced capitalist) societies in the contemporary period.

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