Speculative property regimes reproduce urban inequality by transforming housing into a vehicle for wealth accumulation while deepening scarcity and displacement. Through contrasting stories of luxury vacancy and tenant organizing in Los Angeles, property emerges as a social fiction that legitimizes rent extraction, challenging conventional understandings of ownership, value, and the right to housing.
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