Lorenzo Vidal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo Vidal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Vidal |
| SIGNATURE | VIDAL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3121-8649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Living off assets? European household incomes in the ‘asset economy’
This study examines whether the expansion of asset ownership has given rise to ‘societies of petit rentiers’ shaped by generational differences in asset acquisition opportunities. Using the ECB Household Finance and Consumption Survey (2011–2021) covering up to 23 EU countries, we identify ‘petit-rentier’ households that derive at least 10% (and 20%) of total income from the ownership of rent-bearing assets. Together with descriptive statistics, …
Donant veu a la 'Generació Llogatera'. Desestabilitzant els discursos dominants sobre la reforma del mercat de lloguer a Catalunya i Espanya
A les àrees urbanes contemporànies, una 'generació llogatera' està trobant refugi en habitatges de lloguer privat cars i precaris. Organitzacions de llogateres i iniciatives legislatives han estat actuant per millorar les condicions d'habitatge de les persones llogateres, però s'han trobat amb una forta resistència i han provocat intensos debats polítics i acadèmics. Aquest article analitza els discursos utilitzats pels actors dominants implicats…
The mid-term rental turn
Mid-term rentals (MTRs) have recently become a significant housing segment in today's contested residential landscapes. They occupy a growing market niche for landlords seeking to avoid new regulations in the long-term and short-term rental sectors while catering to mobile urban populations, including digital nomads, expats and students. The intermediation of digital rental platforms has enabled this rapid development. Using a dataset from Ideali…
Global corporate landlordism and a new cycle of tenant contention
This introduction to the special issue offers a preliminary comparative reading of the struggles between global corporate landlords (GCLs) and tenants in contemporary urban landscapes. It traces the rise of GCLs in the lead-up to, and aftermath of, the 2008 global financial crisis and suggests that their aggressive property management practices have catalysed a new cycle of tenant contention. Drawing on recent scholarship and the contributions to…
Neighbourhoods against global corporate landlords
This commentary explores the renewed significance of the neighbourhood scale in tenant organising amid the rise of global corporate landlords. Historically, tenant unions have been embedded in neighbourhood spaces and relations in various ways. Today, neighbourhoods serve as vital sites of resistance, offering rootedness against increasing displacement pressures and providing organising spaces for dwellers of dispersed property portfolios. Howeve…
From 'mom-and-pop' to 'vulnerable landlords
This paper critically examines the widely spread myths of 'mom-and-pop' and 'vulnerable landlords' within the Spanish rental market, by exploring their role in legitimising rent extraction and opposing rent control measures. Amid rising rental prices and increasing tenant impoverishment in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, this study addresses how these landlord archetypes distort public and political discourse, thereby influencing rental ma…
Accommodating ‘generation rent’
In contemporary urban areas, a growing ‘generation rent’ is finding shelter in expensive and precarious private rental housing. Tenant organisations and legislative initiatives have been pushing to improve housing conditions for renters, yet have been met with strong resistance. Intense policy and academic debates have ensued. This paper delves into the discourses used by dominant actors involved in legislative changes affecting the private renta…
The limits to working-class property ownership
The promotion of property ownership has been a key legitimating mechanism for capitalist regimes, across their authoritarian, liberal and neoliberal variations. The 2007-2008 global financial crisis critically undermined this agenda, leading to political turmoil. This paper analyses the material conditions underpinning the 'society of owners' project in Spain, centred on making proletarians property-owners. Drawing from large-scale surveys, we lo…
Beyond renovation
This commentary reflects on the potential of European Union institutions to address the continent’s crisis of housing affordability, which was well underway before the COVID-19 pandemic and has been exacerbated in its wake. Despite having no direct competencies in housing policy, European Union norms and policies shape housing conditions in significant ways. The greater level of public spending on housing renovation enabled by the 2021–2027 multi…
Cooperative Islands in Capitalist Waters
Improving the habitat of residents in central-city neighbourhoods without simultaneously gentrifying these is becoming a pressing dilemma in right-to-housing and right-to-the-city agendas, both in the global North and the global South. This article explores what possibilities limited-equity housing cooperativism can bring to the table. Insights are drawn from two urban 'renewal' processes in which limited-equity housing cooperatives have played a…
Securing Social Gains in, Against and Beyond the State
Public housing is a public sector that has been severely affected by privatization policies. Not so in Denmark, however, where public housing is not provided directly by the State but is run by independent housing associations: the “common housing” sector. This sector is the outcome of a compromise between the social-democratic movement and liberal-conservative parties in the 1920-30s. The social-democrats were politically too weak to implement t…
The politics of creditor-debtor relations and mortgage payment strikes
Mortgage debt and concomitant forms of financial expropriation continue their largely uncontested expansion across the social terrain. The atomisation of debtors and commodity fetishism are two key factors that underpin this process. The collective and partially de-commodified character of mutual-aid housing cooperatives in Uruguay and their conflict-ridden mortgage debt relations provide a contrasting, reverse mirror image. This paper analyses h…
Beyond renovation
This commentary reflects on the potential of European Union institutions to address the continent’s crisis of housing affordability, which was well underway before the COVID-19 pandemic and has been exacerbated in its wake. Despite having no direct competencies in housing policy, European Union norms and policies shape housing conditions in significant ways. The greater level of public spending on housing renovation enabled by the 2021–2027 multi…
Securing Social Gains in, Against and Beyond the State
Public housing is a public sector that has been severely affected by privatization policies. Not so in Denmark, however, where public housing is not provided directly by the State but is run by independent housing associations: the “common housing” sector. This sector is the outcome of a compromise between the social-democratic movement and liberal-conservative parties in the 1920-30s. The social-democrats were politically too weak to implement t…
The limits to working-class property ownership
The promotion of property ownership has been a key legitimating mechanism for capitalist regimes, across their authoritarian, liberal and neoliberal variations. The 2007-2008 global financial crisis critically undermined this agenda, leading to political turmoil. This paper analyses the material conditions underpinning the 'society of owners' project in Spain, centred on making proletarians property-owners. Drawing from large-scale surveys, we lo…
The politics of creditor-debtor relations and mortgage payment strikes
Mortgage debt and concomitant forms of financial expropriation continue their largely uncontested expansion across the social terrain. The atomisation of debtors and commodity fetishism are two key factors that underpin this process. The collective and partially de-commodified character of mutual-aid housing cooperatives in Uruguay and their conflict-ridden mortgage debt relations provide a contrasting, reverse mirror image. This paper analyses h…
Accommodating ‘generation rent’
In contemporary urban areas, a growing ‘generation rent’ is finding shelter in expensive and precarious private rental housing. Tenant organisations and legislative initiatives have been pushing to improve housing conditions for renters, yet have been met with strong resistance. Intense policy and academic debates have ensued. This paper delves into the discourses used by dominant actors involved in legislative changes affecting the private renta…
From 'mom-and-pop' to 'vulnerable landlords
This paper critically examines the widely spread myths of 'mom-and-pop' and 'vulnerable landlords' within the Spanish rental market, by exploring their role in legitimising rent extraction and opposing rent control measures. Amid rising rental prices and increasing tenant impoverishment in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, this study addresses how these landlord archetypes distort public and political discourse, thereby influencing rental ma…
Neighbourhoods against global corporate landlords
This commentary explores the renewed significance of the neighbourhood scale in tenant organising amid the rise of global corporate landlords. Historically, tenant unions have been embedded in neighbourhood spaces and relations in various ways. Today, neighbourhoods serve as vital sites of resistance, offering rootedness against increasing displacement pressures and providing organising spaces for dwellers of dispersed property portfolios. Howeve…
Securing Social Gains in, Against and Beyond the State
Public housing is a public sector that has been severely affected by privatization policies. Not so in Denmark, however, where public housing is not provided directly by the State but is run by independent housing associations: the “common housing” sector. This sector is the outcome of a compromise between the social-democratic movement and liberal-conservative parties in the 1920-30s. The social-democrats were politically too weak to implement t…
The politics of creditor-debtor relations and mortgage payment strikes
Mortgage debt and concomitant forms of financial expropriation continue their largely uncontested expansion across the social terrain. The atomisation of debtors and commodity fetishism are two key factors that underpin this process. The collective and partially de-commodified character of mutual-aid housing cooperatives in Uruguay and their conflict-ridden mortgage debt relations provide a contrasting, reverse mirror image. This paper analyses h…
Cooperative Islands in Capitalist Waters
Improving the habitat of residents in central-city neighbourhoods without simultaneously gentrifying these is becoming a pressing dilemma in right-to-housing and right-to-the-city agendas, both in the global North and the global South. This article explores what possibilities limited-equity housing cooperativism can bring to the table. Insights are drawn from two urban 'renewal' processes in which limited-equity housing cooperatives have played a…
Beyond renovation
This commentary reflects on the potential of European Union institutions to address the continent’s crisis of housing affordability, which was well underway before the COVID-19 pandemic and has been exacerbated in its wake. Despite having no direct competencies in housing policy, European Union norms and policies shape housing conditions in significant ways. The greater level of public spending on housing renovation enabled by the 2021–2027 multi…
Accommodating ‘generation rent’
In contemporary urban areas, a growing ‘generation rent’ is finding shelter in expensive and precarious private rental housing. Tenant organisations and legislative initiatives have been pushing to improve housing conditions for renters, yet have been met with strong resistance. Intense policy and academic debates have ensued. This paper delves into the discourses used by dominant actors involved in legislative changes affecting the private renta…
The limits to working-class property ownership
The promotion of property ownership has been a key legitimating mechanism for capitalist regimes, across their authoritarian, liberal and neoliberal variations. The 2007-2008 global financial crisis critically undermined this agenda, leading to political turmoil. This paper analyses the material conditions underpinning the 'society of owners' project in Spain, centred on making proletarians property-owners. Drawing from large-scale surveys, we lo…
Global corporate landlordism and a new cycle of tenant contention
This introduction to the special issue offers a preliminary comparative reading of the struggles between global corporate landlords (GCLs) and tenants in contemporary urban landscapes. It traces the rise of GCLs in the lead-up to, and aftermath of, the 2008 global financial crisis and suggests that their aggressive property management practices have catalysed a new cycle of tenant contention. Drawing on recent scholarship and the contributions to…
Neighbourhoods against global corporate landlords
This commentary explores the renewed significance of the neighbourhood scale in tenant organising amid the rise of global corporate landlords. Historically, tenant unions have been embedded in neighbourhood spaces and relations in various ways. Today, neighbourhoods serve as vital sites of resistance, offering rootedness against increasing displacement pressures and providing organising spaces for dwellers of dispersed property portfolios. Howeve…
From 'mom-and-pop' to 'vulnerable landlords
This paper critically examines the widely spread myths of 'mom-and-pop' and 'vulnerable landlords' within the Spanish rental market, by exploring their role in legitimising rent extraction and opposing rent control measures. Amid rising rental prices and increasing tenant impoverishment in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, this study addresses how these landlord archetypes distort public and political discourse, thereby influencing rental ma…
Living off assets? European household incomes in the ‘asset economy’
This study examines whether the expansion of asset ownership has given rise to ‘societies of petit rentiers’ shaped by generational differences in asset acquisition opportunities. Using the ECB Household Finance and Consumption Survey (2011–2021) covering up to 23 EU countries, we identify ‘petit-rentier’ households that derive at least 10% (and 20%) of total income from the ownership of rent-bearing assets. Together with descriptive statistics, …
Donant veu a la 'Generació Llogatera'. Desestabilitzant els discursos dominants sobre la reforma del mercat de lloguer a Catalunya i Espanya
A les àrees urbanes contemporànies, una 'generació llogatera' està trobant refugi en habitatges de lloguer privat cars i precaris. Organitzacions de llogateres i iniciatives legislatives han estat actuant per millorar les condicions d'habitatge de les persones llogateres, però s'han trobat amb una forta resistència i han provocat intensos debats polítics i acadèmics. Aquest article analitza els discursos utilitzats pels actors dominants implicats…
The mid-term rental turn
Mid-term rentals (MTRs) have recently become a significant housing segment in today's contested residential landscapes. They occupy a growing market niche for landlords seeking to avoid new regulations in the long-term and short-term rental sectors while catering to mobile urban populations, including digital nomads, expats and students. The intermediation of digital rental platforms has enabled this rapid development. Using a dataset from Ideali…
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