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Tom Gillespie: Affordable Housing, Financialization and Urban Statecraft

The scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approaches to "affordable" housing production. This lecture adopts an urban statecraft lens to examine affordable housing production as a site through which state actors engage with financialization processes to different extents with a view to addressing housing needs. It identifies three dimensions across which state-led affordable housing production can be analyzed and compared in different urban contexts: state motivations to intervene and the degree of financial innovation embraced by policymakers, the distribution of risk associated with financialization processes, and the approaches adopted to mitigate this risk. It is argued that 21st-century state-led housing production constitutes a highly uneven geography of urban statecraft in which state actors adopt a diverse array of strategies to harness, reshape, and even resist financialization processes. This is illustrated with a focus on the Government of Kenya's Affordable Housing Programme as a particular instance of urban statecraft. Visit our website for more information related to this event: https://aap.cornell.edu/news-events/l...