Ep 50: Immigration and Housing Precarity with Carlos Delclós

UCLA Housing Voice

In the years leading up to the Global Financial Crisis, Spain’s housing prices doubled and its immigrant population increased by 1000%. How did immigrants fare when the market crashed? Carlos Delclós joins us to discuss the “citizen gradient” among Spanish citizens, EU citizens living in Spain, and non-EU citizens and how citizenship status influences housing precarity and displacement outcomes.
Show notes:

• Delclós, C. (2022). The burden of the border: Precarious citizenship experiences in the wake of the Spanish housing crash. European Urban and Regional Studies.
• Ealham, C. (2010). Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937. AK Press.https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764221136092
• Interactive FRED graph of real residential property prices for select countries, including Spain.
• Gonick, S. L. (2021). Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid. Stanford University Press.
• Clair, A., Reeves, A., McKee, M., & Stuckler, D. (2019). Constructing a housing precariousness measure for Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 29(1), 13-28.
• Kain, J. F., & Quigley, J. M. (1972). Housing market discrimination, home-ownership, and savings behavior. The American Economic Review, 62(3), 263-277.
• Taylor, K. Y. (2019). Race for Profit: How banks and the real estate industry undermined black homeownership. UNC Press Books.
• Yiftachel, O. (2020). From displacement to displaceability: A southeastern perspective on the new metropolis. City, 24(1-2), 151-165.
• Caroz-Armayones, J. M., Benach, J., Delclós, C., & Julià, M. (2022). The double burden of precariousness: linking housing, employment, and perceived stress–a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 1-10.
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