Marilyn August
Biographic Data
| ID | 956908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marilyn August |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marilyn |
| FAMILY NAME | August |
| SIGNATURE | AUGUST M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5860-4910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Financialization, housing rents and affordability in Toronto
This article examines the links between financialization, rent increases and spatial inequality in Toronto, Canada. By drawing on qualitative data from the grey literature, corporate records and real estate events, we first find that financial landlords (REITs, REOCs, asset managers, private equity and institutions) attest to rent price increases as a strategy core to their financial structure, leading to a systematic undermining of affordability…
Financialization of housing from cradle to grave
This paper explores the links between housing, financialization, and inequality—as exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses specifically on seniors’ housing (retirement and long-term care homes) and purpose-built rental housing, exploring how government cuts and retrenchment in the late 1990s created an opportunity for private profits for financial investors in housing that catalyzed a dramatic rise in “financialized” ownership of care homes,…
Reimagining geographies of public finance
The study of public finance—the role of government in the economy—has faded in geography as attention to private finance has grown. Disrupting the tendency to fetishize private financial power, this article proposes an expanded conception of public finance that emphasizes its role in shaping geographies of inequality. We conceptualize the relationship between public and private finance as a dynamic interface characterized today by asymmetrical po…
The financialization of Canadian multi-family rental housing
After 20 years of disinvestment, new financial vehicles began targeting Canada’s multi-family apartment sector in the 1990s, with the first Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) declaring “Apartments make money!” on the cover of their 1999 report. This paper details the financialization of multi-family rental, tracing how REITs grew from owning zero to 10% of Canada’s apartments, while “financialized” landlords comprise nine of the ten biggest land…
Making a market for itself
This paper demonstrates the infiltration of finance into increasingly niche real estate sectors, taking the example of the emergent Canadian purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector since 2011. Drawing on a novel database of PBSA, qualitative document analysis, and key informant interviews, we uncover the business strategies and geographic patterns of investment in the sector. We then consider the local impacts of this phenomenon in Wate…
Public housing myths
Public housing myths: perception, reality, and social policy." Social & Cultural Geography, 17(6), pp. 823–824
Negotiating Social Mix in Toronto's First Public Housing Redevelopment
This article examines the experience of social interaction in Toronto's Don Mount Court community, the first socially mixed public-housing redevelopment site in Canada. Similar to the American HOPE VI program, redevelopment involved the demolition and mixed-income reconstruction of the community to include both public housing and new market condominiums with a neo-traditional redesign. Based on participant observation, this article describes four…
Challenging the Rhetoric of Stigmatization
This paper analyzes the impacts of territorial stigmatization on the experiences and life strategies of residents of Regent Park, Canada's first and largest public housing estate. It centers on how discourses of isolation, disorganization, and danger (based on imported theories and depictions of life in social housing developed in a very different time and place than the Canadian inner city) have served to justify the state-driven gentrification …
Beyond Structuralism
Heretofore, much of the jargon and logic of such scientific domains as Anthropology, Linguistics, Psychoanalysis, and Sociology have been drafted into the service of certain literary critics, namely the Structuralists, who have sought, through a reordering of priorities, to shift the emphasis from the meaning (the signifig) of a given piece of literature to the actual process by which the work is engendered, (the signifiant). The Cerisy experienc…
Challenging the Rhetoric of Stigmatization
This paper analyzes the impacts of territorial stigmatization on the experiences and life strategies of residents of Regent Park, Canada's first and largest public housing estate. It centers on how discourses of isolation, disorganization, and danger (based on imported theories and depictions of life in social housing developed in a very different time and place than the Canadian inner city) have served to justify the state-driven gentrification …
The financialization of Canadian multi-family rental housing
After 20 years of disinvestment, new financial vehicles began targeting Canada’s multi-family apartment sector in the 1990s, with the first Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) declaring “Apartments make money!” on the cover of their 1999 report. This paper details the financialization of multi-family rental, tracing how REITs grew from owning zero to 10% of Canada’s apartments, while “financialized” landlords comprise nine of the ten biggest land…
Making a market for itself
This paper demonstrates the infiltration of finance into increasingly niche real estate sectors, taking the example of the emergent Canadian purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector since 2011. Drawing on a novel database of PBSA, qualitative document analysis, and key informant interviews, we uncover the business strategies and geographic patterns of investment in the sector. We then consider the local impacts of this phenomenon in Wate…
Reimagining geographies of public finance
The study of public finance—the role of government in the economy—has faded in geography as attention to private finance has grown. Disrupting the tendency to fetishize private financial power, this article proposes an expanded conception of public finance that emphasizes its role in shaping geographies of inequality. We conceptualize the relationship between public and private finance as a dynamic interface characterized today by asymmetrical po…
Negotiating Social Mix in Toronto's First Public Housing Redevelopment
This article examines the experience of social interaction in Toronto's Don Mount Court community, the first socially mixed public-housing redevelopment site in Canada. Similar to the American HOPE VI program, redevelopment involved the demolition and mixed-income reconstruction of the community to include both public housing and new market condominiums with a neo-traditional redesign. Based on participant observation, this article describes four…
Financialization of housing from cradle to grave
This paper explores the links between housing, financialization, and inequality—as exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses specifically on seniors’ housing (retirement and long-term care homes) and purpose-built rental housing, exploring how government cuts and retrenchment in the late 1990s created an opportunity for private profits for financial investors in housing that catalyzed a dramatic rise in “financialized” ownership of care homes,…
Beyond Structuralism
Heretofore, much of the jargon and logic of such scientific domains as Anthropology, Linguistics, Psychoanalysis, and Sociology have been drafted into the service of certain literary critics, namely the Structuralists, who have sought, through a reordering of priorities, to shift the emphasis from the meaning (the signifig) of a given piece of literature to the actual process by which the work is engendered, (the signifiant). The Cerisy experienc…
Negotiating Social Mix in Toronto's First Public Housing Redevelopment
This article examines the experience of social interaction in Toronto's Don Mount Court community, the first socially mixed public-housing redevelopment site in Canada. Similar to the American HOPE VI program, redevelopment involved the demolition and mixed-income reconstruction of the community to include both public housing and new market condominiums with a neo-traditional redesign. Based on participant observation, this article describes four…
Challenging the Rhetoric of Stigmatization
This paper analyzes the impacts of territorial stigmatization on the experiences and life strategies of residents of Regent Park, Canada's first and largest public housing estate. It centers on how discourses of isolation, disorganization, and danger (based on imported theories and depictions of life in social housing developed in a very different time and place than the Canadian inner city) have served to justify the state-driven gentrification …
Public housing myths
Public housing myths: perception, reality, and social policy." Social & Cultural Geography, 17(6), pp. 823–824
The financialization of Canadian multi-family rental housing
After 20 years of disinvestment, new financial vehicles began targeting Canada’s multi-family apartment sector in the 1990s, with the first Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) declaring “Apartments make money!” on the cover of their 1999 report. This paper details the financialization of multi-family rental, tracing how REITs grew from owning zero to 10% of Canada’s apartments, while “financialized” landlords comprise nine of the ten biggest land…
Making a market for itself
This paper demonstrates the infiltration of finance into increasingly niche real estate sectors, taking the example of the emergent Canadian purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector since 2011. Drawing on a novel database of PBSA, qualitative document analysis, and key informant interviews, we uncover the business strategies and geographic patterns of investment in the sector. We then consider the local impacts of this phenomenon in Wate…
Financialization of housing from cradle to grave
This paper explores the links between housing, financialization, and inequality—as exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses specifically on seniors’ housing (retirement and long-term care homes) and purpose-built rental housing, exploring how government cuts and retrenchment in the late 1990s created an opportunity for private profits for financial investors in housing that catalyzed a dramatic rise in “financialized” ownership of care homes,…
Reimagining geographies of public finance
The study of public finance—the role of government in the economy—has faded in geography as attention to private finance has grown. Disrupting the tendency to fetishize private financial power, this article proposes an expanded conception of public finance that emphasizes its role in shaping geographies of inequality. We conceptualize the relationship between public and private finance as a dynamic interface characterized today by asymmetrical po…
Financialization, housing rents and affordability in Toronto
This article examines the links between financialization, rent increases and spatial inequality in Toronto, Canada. By drawing on qualitative data from the grey literature, corporate records and real estate events, we first find that financial landlords (REITs, REOCs, asset managers, private equity and institutions) attest to rent price increases as a strategy core to their financial structure, leading to a systematic undermining of affordability…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Finance (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Financialization (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public housing (3 works)