“…In the long run, the way had been paved by the progressive liberalization of housing at least since the 1980s, with the reduction of tenant protections, cancellation of rent caps, and, more generally, the production of the regulatory and fiscal frameworks to stimulate housing financialization (López & Rodríguez, 2010;Belotti & Arbaci, 2021;Tulumello & Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, 2021). During the years of crisis and following economic growth, Southern European countries have accelerated reforms in the sectors of housing and planning, with the discursive goal of fostering economic development (Belotti & Arbaci, 2021;García-Lamarca, 2020;Tulumello & Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, 2021). For instance, both Portugal (Law 31/2012) and Spain (Law 4/2013) further liberalized their rental markets, Italy introduced several reforms to ease public-private partnerships in social housing, and Greece (Law 4346/2015) eased repossessions by reducing protections to defaulting households.…”