Abolish Rent — When Housing Becomes a Power Relationship
What looks like a housing affordability problem can also reveal a deeper question: who holds power over the places people need to live?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Abolish Rent by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates the authors’ argument that rent functions not simply as a market price but as a relationship of economic and institutional power.
The episode traces the interaction between property ownership, rent extraction, appreciation, public investment, financialization, and eviction. It also…
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