Financialization of housing with care: how we got here and why it matters
Schedule
Wed Mar 18 2026 at 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Central House | London, EN
About this Event
Across the world, societies are grappling with housing unaffordability as well as a growing demand for social care. At the intersection of these problems lies the provision of "supported housing": housing that is provided with some degree of care. Accommodating over half a million people in England – ranging from people with disabilities to children in care – the sector has historically been owned and managed by not-for-profit entities. However, over recent decades for-profit investors, and especially large-scale institutional-investors, have acquired a growing proportion of the sector and its associated £8 billion per-annum state-subsidies.This panel event will critically interrogate the trend(s) above. It will explore why these for-profit investors emerged, how they invest in supported housing, and why all this matters. Three speakers will present for about 15-minutes each, followed by a panel discussion.
Dr Amy Horton, Department of Geography, UCL
Amy is an economic geographer specialising in finance, labour and urban development. Her research examines different approaches to financing social infrastructures of care and housing, and the implications for those who live and work in them.
Dr Benjamin Goodair, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE
Ben is a postdoctoral fellow focusing on the privatisation of health and social care services. Ben's work examines the investment strategy and behaviour of for-profit investors in childrens' and elderly care homes and how this affects the quality of care among other socio-economic outcomes.
Dr Chris Foye, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
Chris is a social scientist interested in the political-economy of housing markets and policy. He is about to commence a two-year ESRC-funded research project into the rentierization of supported housing in England
About FUDA
The Financialisation of Urban Development and its Alternatives (FUDA) research cluster, based at the Bartlett School of Planning, critically examines the impacts of financialisation on people and places. It explores how financialisation shapes the development and regeneration of contemporary urban built environments, and the potential for alternative models for imagining and managing urban change. The FUDA Speaker Series invites leading scholars working on these issues to share their latest research.
Where is it happening?
Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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