Housing affordability and the limits of growth models: A critical review of Reisenbichler (2025) through the roof ReisenbichlerA. (2025) Through the Roof: Housing, Capitalism, and The State in America and Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

This is a review of Alexander Reisenbichler’s book, published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press. It first summarizes the book’s argument and main findings, and then offers a critical appraisal of its contribution and overall argument. The review points out the limits of growth models when understood as mere institutional arrangements to understand the housing affordability crisis.