We are experiencing an unprecedented social crisis. Poverty is increasing, but wages aren’t. For millions, dignified and affordable housing has become an unattainable pipe dream.
Left MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace (Independents for Change, Ireland) launch The Left’s new study, “From Crisis to Cataclysm: Housing Financialisation and the EU” with the authors Enikő Vincze and Eva Betavatzi.
The study reveals the disastrous consequences of our economic model and outlines how radical change can guarantee the right to decent housing, which is so fundamental to our democracies.
This study shows how the housing question is written into the fundamental contradictions of this system, how housing inequalities overlap with the class inequalities inherent in the capitalist political economy, and continue to be reproduced even if, nowadays, another stage of capitalism slowly replaces the neoliberal era.”