The Secretariat for Social Accommodation in collaboration with the Department of Anthropological Sciences would like to warmly invite you to the second seminar on 'The Future of Housing: Housing for Whom?'
Elena Besussi (Bartlett, UCL) will be discussing the housing crisis in England from a wider economic perspective. In this seminar, Elena looks at housing, both in terms of production and consumption, and how it is deeply part of a wider economic model supported by debt and finance and how a household鈥檚 wealth is also dependent on it. She argues that housing provision has been organised to restructure society in different class fragments and building more houses is not the solution to the problem.
The seminar will be held on Friday 20 April at 09:30 at the University of Malta Valletta Campus.
Elena Besussi is a teaching fellow at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Her research addresses the politics of planning, at a range of spatial scales, in the context of diverse and unequal societies and economies. Her most recent work has investigated the creation of political subjectivities in the context of neighbourhood planning in London. She is currently also completing a PhD in Planning Studies investigating the institutions of public landownership in England and their contribution to dynamics of capital accumulation.
