This paper explores the role of housing in households’ increasing financial activities. First, I build on quantitative work on the growth of housing related debt across Europe carried out under WP5 by presenting data on rates of homeownership, levels and types of mortgage debt, and house...

This paper presents an introduction to the concept of systems of provision (sop) and illustrates some of the core themes by applying the sop framework to the study of the financialisation of housing and water. The sop approach considers consumption to be part of a chain of activity interlinked...

The paper uses the systems of provision (sop) approach to analyse the transformed presence of finance in the UK housing sop since the 1980s. ‘Sop’ analyses look at the integrated chain of agents involved in providing a good and the structures and processes through which they relate to each...