ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes to understand urban housing crises as transitional periods, embedded in long-term, global and locally contextualised, political-economic transformation processes that thoroughly affect people’s lives and minds. Focusing on the private rental sector in London and Berlin and conceptualising renting insecurity as collective and individual experience of liminality, it delineates the symbolic arenas in which feelings and practices of home are restructured under current conditions of neo-liberalised housing.
