Editor: Flo Schade Managing Editor: Yener Kara Federal Secretary: Barry Weisleder The Political Economy of Housing By Flo Schade – Housing commodification and mortgage debt play a huge role in the current political economy. Particularly true in the Canadian context, financialized speculation of housing plays such an outsized role that it results in the contradiction that housing serves a function very different than providing shelter for people. Let’s start with a broad three-point assessment of bourgeois economics and then specify how that relates to the housing crisis. Economics is a…