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    A home or a wealth generator? Inequality, financialisation and the Irish housing crisis


    Hearne, Rory (2017) A home or a wealth generator? Inequality, financialisation and the Irish housing crisis. Project Report. TASC.

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    Abstract

    Housing is the basis of stability and security for an individual or family. The centre of our social, emotional and sometimes economic lives, a home should be a sanctuary; a place to live in peace, security and dignity… Housing has been financialised: valued as a commodity rather than a human dwelling, it has become, for investors, a means to secure and accumulate wealth rather than a place to live in dignity, to raise a family and thrive within a community… Deprivations of the right to adequate housing are not just programme failures or policy challenges but human rights violations of the highest order, depriving those affected of the most basic human right to dignity, security and life itself.

    Item Type: Monograph (Project Report)
    Keywords: home; wealth generator; Inequality; financialisation; Irish housing crisis;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Applied Social Studies
    Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI
    Item ID: 12052
    Depositing User: Rory Hearne
    Date Deposited: 18 Dec 2019 16:22
    Publisher: TASC
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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