“…Viewed from this perspective, financial accumulation in supported housing appears not as an inexorable structural tendency, but rather a more contingent reading of financialization as a 'high-risk capitalist strategy' (Hodkinson, 2011: 376) riven by tensions arising from the contradiction between housing's exchange value as an asset and its use value for social reproduction. As the article has shown, while it is possible to displace the risks arising from these tensions, they cannot be altogether eliminated, with ongoing exposures to risk among SSH providers threatening to constrain profitmaking and disrupt the stable returns demanded by investors (see Christophers, 2010;Fields, 2017;Horton, 2022;Rosenman et al, 2023). While REITs have to date weathered these problems, tensions within these processes suggest the need to explore potential avenues for contestation.…”