‘In this excellent book, Josh Ryan-Collins shows that unaffordable housing is not inevitable, and how we can break what the author aptly calls the housing-finance cycle.’
Michael Hudson, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College‘Why can't you afford to buy a home? It's not because of too many smashed avocadoes, or too little land, but too much bank lending. Josh Ryan-Collins clearly explains how bank lending for speculation has made housing inaccessible, and how to tame the beast of finance.’
Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics
"This book is the best short introduction I’ve seen to a burgeoning literature on housing and financialisation"
Inside Housing
‘Why Can’t You Afford a Home? is a short, readable and valuable book…It makes a convincing set of arguments that explain much of our current housing crisis.’
Irish Times