diff --git a/content/session/debtandhousingstruggles.md b/content/session/debtandhousingstruggles.md index 8acf0e4..d0f1780 100644 --- a/content/session/debtandhousingstruggles.md +++ b/content/session/debtandhousingstruggles.md @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ Read the proposed articles before you come to the session. Watch the film togeth # Raquel Rolnik: 'The Global Financialisation on Housing' **In *Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance*, Verso, 2019** -Scenes from the beginning of the twenty-first century, September 2010. + +**Scenes from the beginning of the twenty-first century, September 2010.** It was a cold and windy morning in Astana, the futuristic capital of Kazakhstan. After crossing a sort of plateau ablaze with the shiny creations of fashionable big-name architects, we finally arrived in a large tent to meet the hunger strikers. Lying on hammocks surrounded by signs written in Kazakh and Russian, Asian-looking elderly people were mixed with red-haired white women and middle-aged couples, taking shifts in beds and chairs. Having paid the instalments for apartments they had acquired off-plan, they were victims of construction companies that had gone bankrupt and disappeared, leaving the buildings’ skeletons unfinished and families with neither home nor money.