Different Debtors, Different Struggles: Foreign-Currency Housing Loans and Class Tensions in Romania

Management of foreign-currency household debt in Romania in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 had the effect of deepening pre-2008 class disparities and treated debtor categories differently according to their income. In this article we contribute to the debate on subaltern financialisation by showing how post-crisis credit and housing policies contributed to the fact that today different debtor groups (i.e. by type of credit but also by time of lending) find themselves at opposing ends of the political spectrum based on different class alliances, with those who benefited from the crisis-management polices positioning themselves against those who were the ‘losers’ under these same policies.

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Document Type
article
ISSN
2336-2839
Volume / Issue
9 / 1
Pages
68-77
Date of publication
22.6.2022

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Florea, I. , M. Dumitriu 2022. ‘Different Debtors, Different Struggles: Foreign-Currency Housing Loans and Class Tensions in Romania.’ Critical Housing Analysis 9 (1): 68-77. https://doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2022.9.1.542