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Abstract: The world is facing a global housing affordability crisis. While the root causes are in part hyperlocal, there are widespread factors which contribute to the global crisis. There are a myriad of causal factors with contribute to housing unaffordability. The commodification of housing has contributed to the accelerating cost of housing. The rapid financialization of housing has exacerbated the loss of affordable housing across the housing continuum, eroding a key tenet of housing: that access to affordable housing is a human right.

Biography: Genessa Bates is an alumna of the Â鶹¹ÙÍø's University School of Urban and Regional Planning master's program and the co-author of (2026).