The rise of rentierism and the global urban break
The report offers an international look at the rise of rentierism, whereby housing has become an investment asset that triggers inequality.
The unpublished data are the result of the comparison between four global cities: Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Madrid and Barcelona. They show that although the supply of rental housing has increased, this has not improved the living conditions of tenants. On the contrary, rent is consolidated as a permanent form of residence, marked by insecurity, economic over-effort and heritage concentration.
The analysis concludes with a series of public policy proposals to protect the population and curb the growth of urban inequality.
- Date: 2025
- Authors: Marta Ill-Raga, Pablo Ruiz Pérez i Jaime Palomera Zaidel
- Technical responsibility: CONICET-CEUR (Projecte Contested Territories), IDRA, Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Habita 65, Karlsruer Institut für Technologie, University of Leeds, University of Leipzig, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
- Supported by: Research and Innovation UE program Horizon 2020, in the grant agreement Marie Skłodowska-Curie No 873082.
- Keywords: rentierism, international, tenant, precariousness