Wasta on Steroids: Financialized Housing Violates Human Rights
Article appeared in The Markaz Review 15 June, 2021 Mischa Geracoulis By the end of this account, I’ll relay how wasta in the speculative “housing empire of finance” — to borrow a phrase from Unequal Cities’ Raquel Rolnik — has rendered me a transient. First, a few words on wasta. Read more…