Overcoming hyper-localism

How global corporate landlords shape their own opposition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10859699
AutoresLisa Vollmer (0000-0001-5263-4767, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen62
Número16
Páginas3188-3204
Fecha de publicación2025-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00420980251344048
OpenAlexW4412594259
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas36

Housing movements often form at the hyper-local level whereas their opponents, financialised housing companies, are increasingly global actors. This article asks how housing movements are able to shift scale. It uses the case of Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen (DWE), a campaign seeking to socialise financialised housing in Berlin that managed to unite the city’s fragmented housing movement. It argues that scale shift cannot only be explained through the movements’ own agency, but equally with structural conditions. The emergence of global corporate landlords as super–landlords has led to the roll-out of similar valorisation strategies in a spatial–temporal condensed way, resulting in landlord-based city-wide tenant networks, which united in the campaign for socialisation. Apart from this organisational scale shift, DWE also upscaled its demands into a coherent vision of affordable, decommodified, democratic and environmentally just housing provision

Business · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Localism · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism