The University, LIS Datacenter and LISER invite you for of the monthly seminar on social inequality and public policies, which will be held due to COVID-19.ONLINE and IN-PERSON
Housing is at the intersection of the three ‘heads’ of Deleuze and Guattari’s apparatus of capture: land, labor and money. The production and consumption of housing thus involves both the three forms of direct comparison (of land, labor and of objects exchanged on the market) and the three modes of monopolistic appropriation (absolute rent, surplus labor and the issuance of currency). I locate the violence inherent to the apparatus of capture in the relationship between housing and migration flows, and identify three ‘sites’ of capture:
1. Landownership is in the hands of local actors, who regulate access to it in order to create an artificial shortage that complicates access to land for newcomers;
2. Housing production is managed by a small group of developers, the vast majority of whom are local, which limits the supply of housing;
3. Tax incentives have created a class of domestic investors who rent out housing to those unable to join the apparatus of capture, while the local banking system funds both the production and the consumption of housing.
I finish with some thoughts on the potential impacts of recently proposed housing laws in Luxembourg on the operation of this apparatus of capture.
Wednesday 23/11 SEMILUX at 15.30
MSA 3.220
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Meeting number: 2732 520 1902
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