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# 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.