"In this excellent book, Josh Ryan-Collins shows that unaffordable housing is not part of nature, and how a number of countries have broken what the author aptly calls the housing-financial cycle, by de-linking land pricing from mortgage-debt pyramiding."
—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, University of Kingston, 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
"In this excellent book, Josh Ryan-Collins shows that unaffordable housing is not part of nature, and how a number of countries have broken what the author aptly calls the housing-financial cycle, by de-linking land pricing from mortgage-debt pyramiding."
—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, University of Kingston, 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