Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy: How vacancy became Greece’s most lucrative housing strategy

This paper reinterprets urban vacancy in Greece not as market failure, but as a calculated tool for profit. Focusing on Thessaloniki, it argues that vacancy is produced, maintained, repurposed, and removed by financial actors to maximize returns. These actors withhold properties from circulatio...

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Main Author: Nikos Vrantsis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Radical Housing Journal 2025-06-01
Series:Radical Housing Journal
Online Access:https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financialization-possessive-familialism-and-the-politics-of-vacancy/
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