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Manuel Aalbers

  • category
    professor
  • research group
  • keywords
    economy & finance
    housing

Manuel B. Aalbers is professor of Human Geography at KU Leuven/University of Leuven (Belgium) where he leads a research group on the intersection of real estate, finance and states, spearheaded by a grant from the European Research Council.

He has also published on financialization, redlining, social and financial exclusion, neoliberalism, mortgage markets, the privatization of social housing, neighborhood decline and gentrification. He is the author of "Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and "The Financialization of Housing: A Political Economy Approach" (Routledge, 2016) and the editor of "Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). He is also the associate editor of the "Encyclopedia of Urban Studies" (Sage, 2010) and editor-in-chief of geography journal TESG. Most of his papers can be downloaded here.