“…A first set of studies looks at increased household indebtedness and rising mortgage debt in North America (Aalbers, 2008; Gaudreau, 2017; Kalman-Lamb, 2017; Walks, 2013; Wyly et al, 2009), Latin America (Monkkonen, 2011; Pereira, 2017; Soederberg, 2015; Zapata, 2018), Northwestern Europe (Aalbers, 2016; Langley, 2008; Montgomerie and Büdenbender, 2014; Poppe et al, 2016; Waldron, 2016; Wijburg, 2018; Wood, 2017), East Central Europe (Bohle, 2014; Pósfai, 2018; Rodik and Žitko, 2015; Samec, 2018), Southern Europe and Turkey (Aalbers, 2007; Alexandri and Janoschka, 2018; Aslan and Dinçer, 2018; Di Feliciantonio, 2016; Palomera, 2014; Vives-Miró et al, 2018), Africa (Campbell, 2013; Kutz and Lenhardt, 2016; Migozzi, 2018), East Asia (Forrest and Hirayama, 2009; Smart and Lee, 2003; Wu, 2015; Zhang et al, 2018), and Australia and New Zealand (Morris, 2018; Murphy, 2011). This is not to suggest that the experiences in all these regions and countries are the same, but I cite the literature for different (sub-)continents to indicate that this is a topic of research across the globe.…”