Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Constitution and housing -- 3 Cost of living -- 4 House prices in Chile -- a Hypothesis 1: due to soil scarcity -- b Hypothesis 2: the problem is not housing, it is wages -- c Hypothesis 3: due to regulations -- d Hypothesis 4: the real estate market is imperfect -- 5 Real estate profitability -- 6 Housing and financialisation -- 7 Land and speculation -- 8 Pandemic and political economy of housing -- 9 Afterword: housing as political economy -- References