# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Why Can't We Afford Housing & Retirement?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This online international seminar series is built upon the joint Lecture Series in Advanced Political Economy (SAPE) by SOAS University of London and The New School for Social Research in New York in 2021-23. With an additional partner The Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa, this seminar series will connect the academic discussions to the real-world power struggle and workers’ everyday lives.

We will talk about current affairs, trends in production and work, and their implications on trade unions and the working-class movement. Each week, we will invite leading experts on the subject and analyse what’s been going on by identifying key challenges.

Together with the audience, we want to think about how we can fight against the challenges and build a movement toward a more systematic change.

Why Can't We Afford Housing & Retirement? will be delivered by Manuel Aalbers, Hwanhee Bae and chaired by Karthik Manickam.

Manuel is professor of Human Geography at KU Leuven, where he leads a research group on the intersection of real estate, finance and states. He takes a political economy approach to studying the effects of ‘big’ processes like financialization and neo liberalization on cities and housing markets across the globe and has published on redlining and exclusion, the privatization of social housing, neighborhood decline and gentrification. He is the author of Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets and The Financialization of Housing as well as the associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Urban Studies and editor-in-chief of geography journal TESG. 

Hwanhee is an Economics PhD candidate at SOAS University of London and Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate for SOAS and GFTU, funded by Innovate UK. Her research interests are financialisation, housing, pensions, welfare, and political economy. 

Karthik Manickam is a PhD student in the Economics Department at the New School for Social Research. Karthik received his MA and MPhil in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has consulted for the World Bank, UNESCAP, and Club of Rome. His current research focuses on the political economy of social protection systems for vulnerable populations. 

Application deadline: 26 November 2025
Price: Free for affiliates and non-affiliates.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london-united-kingdom/why-cant-we-afford-housing-and-retirement/200029086040705
- **Event Categories**: workshops, nonprofit, art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 20

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: London, United Kingdom
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, House of Lords, Old Palace Yard, London, SW1P 3JY, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Why Can't We Afford Housing & Retirement? being held?
  - **A:** Why Can't We Afford Housing & Retirement? takes place on Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm at Online event, House of Lords, Old Palace Yard, London, SW1P 3JY, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Why Can't We Afford Housing & Retirement??
  - **A:** Why Can't We Afford Housing & Retirement? is organized by GFTU Educational Trust.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Why Can't We Afford Housing & Retirement? is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in London, United Kingdom, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Why Can't We Afford Housing & Retirement? sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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