“Why invest in Romania?” Investment strategies and state interventions advancing real estate development in semipheripheries

Talk by Prof. Enikő Vincze, housing justice activist at Căși sociale ACUM!/Social housing NOW! in Cluj, Romania, given within the seminar series organized by the Torino-based Beyond Inhabitation Lab project A synopsis based on the recorded presentation of 21.03.2024 and the PowerPoint presentation prepared for the talk. The talk was inspired by the results of …

Trends of institutional residential investments in a “super-homeownership” country [Enikő Vincze and Ioana Florea ]

Working paper presented at the EURS Seminar and Special Issue Institutional Investment in Urban Housing Markets: Global Trends, Local Manifestations and the State, 22-23 November 2023, Brussels This article illustrates how institutional investors in real estate advanced in the context of a “super-homeownership” country, as Romania and other parts of Eastern Europe have been called …

The spatiality of deindustrialization and real estate financialization in Romania [Enikő Vincze & George Iulian Zamfir] 

Paper presented at the Panel Real estate finance and society, Conference Intersections of finance and society, the panel on Real estate finance and society, 14-15 September 2023, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Real estate development in Romania evolved as a site of capital accumulation in the context of the country’s integration as an emergent market into the …

On the ruins of socialist industries: capitalist accumulation through urban regeneration and entrepreneurial governance in real estate projects from Romana [Sorin Gog & Enikő Vincze]

Paper presented at INURA conference, “Right to the Planet – Reconsider the Urban Question”, June 29-30, 2023, Switzerland The transformation of state socialism into capitalism happened in Romania starting in the early 90s through a dramatic de-industrialization process, which significantly impacted many major economic centers. Some of these industrial cities never managed to recover and …

Privatization and crisis in Romania at the intersection of global and local forces [Ioana Vlad & Enikő Vincze]

Paper presented at ESA RN15 Second Mid-Term Conference “Which globalization during and after multiple crises?”, 18-19 May 2023, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Ioana Vlad and Enikő Vincze presented some of the REDURB results about the relationship between privatization-led deindustrialization and real estate development. The paper focused on the role of privatization in the …

Subordinate financialization of real estate development in the semi-peripheries of the global capital. The case of Romania [Ioana Florea & Enikő Vincze]

Paper presented at the XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology organized at Coimbra University with the title: Polarized societies? Challenges for sociology, Session on Classes, inequalities, and public policies – Capitalism and social policies. Ioana Florea and Enikő Vincze presented some of the REDURB results about the financialization of real estate development in the semiperipheral country …

Conferința “Transformări capitaliste în România: dezvoltare inegală și decalaje sociale”

Evenimentul a fost organizat în 23-24 martie 2023, în cadrul colaborativ a două granturi de cercetare: Muncă precară și locuire periferică, contract 22 din 01/11/2020 (RO-NO-2019-0496) și Formarea claselor sociale și reurbanizare prin dezvoltare imobiliară într-o periferie estică a capitalismului global (PCE 65 din 08/02/2021). Co-organizatorii instituționali ai conferinței au fost: Facultatea de Sociologie și Asistență …