The attempt to financialize psychedelics has collided with the unruliness of these substances both as therapeutic assets and as vectors of cultural resistance. Our article of the week traces the rise and fall of commercial psychedelics. By Sandy B. Hager in @finandsoc.bsky.social buff.ly/7QsCdDI

In Britain, every time you... — turn on a tap — flip a light switch — board a train or bus — post a letter — drop your child at nursery ... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power. 🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.

I got asked to write about the Gaza Riviera Plan + argue it should be understood within the settler colonial logic of elimination + made possible through urbicide and expulsion theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

"Before the policy, social housing made up 31% of overall housing tenure in England. Today it is 16%, causing council housing waiting lists and homelessness to surge." 📰 Read @davidjmadden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the enduring impact of Thatcher's Right to Buy policy.

💰 How much public wealth do you think was given away for free via Right to Buy?  1bn? 10bn? 100bn?  Try 200 BILLION pounds.  🧵 Here's how Britain’s most infamous housing policy became its biggest housing disaster — and near the largest privatisation in British history.

How does digital capitalism affect wealth inequalities and class formation? This is a question I answer in this new paper, focusing on South Africa. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

last week, I was in an expert hearing on housing at European Parliament. I told MEPs that I worry the Commission's European Affordable Housing Plan, in partnership w European Investment Bank, may morph into another derisking vehicle for institutional landlords.

Foster care in England is now a business model. Private equity firms are cashing in on vulnerable kids while carers earn less than £1ph. This is what happens when you turn public care into a market. 📊 @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & @sophieflinders.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"In Ireland, nearly half of all units delivered since 2017 were purchased by investment funds. Across Sweden, the share of private rental apartments with institutional investors as landlords has swelled to 24%. In Berlin, €40bn of housing assets are now in institutional portfolios, 10% of the total"

There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle. But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Proofs checked, let me take you inside a national scandal… Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State …out World Homelessness Day (10 October 2025) PRE-ORDER here www.hive.co.uk/Product/Kath... @agendapub.bsky.social

My new article in @city-journal.bsky.social argues for a critical understanding of the meritocratic ideal among urban researchers. In particular, it explores the consequences of how this ideal is reproduced in stigmatised neighbourhoods: doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

I received these comics by @miroborn.bsky.social on growing up in a stigmatized neighbourhood and subsequent social mobility in the mail today. Great example of knowledge dissemination! Online here: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

remember how Berlin citizens voted to take back the city from corporate landlords in 2021? it was an emancipatory promise many applauded. since then, corporate landlords increased their stronghold on the city to 25% of housing stok, and w it, rents went up by 9% annually.

Part II PRS financialization on the wholesale privatization of social housing in Germany & Sweden. Truly amazing what happened in those countries @fingalpimpernel.bsky.social @jiegson.bsky.social @miguel-martinez.bsky.social @javigil.bsky.social theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/prs-financ...

This government is now reverse-engineering cuts to the benefits system to meet their self-imposed fiscal rules. As our deputy chief executive Hannah Peaker said when asked by the Times "it is simply no way to run an economy". www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I wrote a short piece about the fallacy of 'affordable' housing when rents have risen immensely, focusing on the impact of this on millions of families (and why the governments' current plans won't fix it) 👇

I have an article in the new @finandsoc.bsky.social on the vacuum of justification hovering over (under?) the asset economy, and the unease that results www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hot off the digital press, my article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I have an article in the Guardian today on the loophole pushing Berlin’s housing crisis to new extremes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A new issue of International Journal of Housing Policy is out (2025-1)! We wrote an extended intro about housing as an engine of inequality and basis for class formation. Co-authored with @justinkadi.bsky.social, @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social and Megan Nethercote www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us next Tuesday at 16:15 for @timwhite100.bsky.social's talk on Venture Capital Experiments with Housing in Berlin, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @jfki-econ.bsky.social 👇

New special issue on ‘Housing Disruptions’ critically examining the digital transformation of housing and home. Edited by Dallas Rogers, @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social and myself in Digital Geography and Society. Contributions as follows: