Original scientific paper

SOCIAL HOUSING IN SWEDEN - PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

Goran Lindberg ; Lund University, Lund

Abstract

This paper examines the fate of Swedish social housing policy
from its beginning directly after the Second World War to the
present stage of radical deregulation. The first part contains a
description of the different components of what has been seen as
the Swedish model of housing policy. The goal of this policy was
not to replace the market but to regulate it in such a way that it
would function in the smooth way which the market theory predicts
but never seems to achieve. The second part briefly describes the
years of rapid expansion of mass housing in general and social
housing in particular and this was followed by what was
experienced as a crisis by representatives of housing enterprises
in the social rental sector. The third part examines how these
enterprises tried to ameliorate their way of functioning. The last
. two parts disc uss the increased social polarisation on the Swedish
housing market against a background of additional changes.

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Hrčak ID:

33065

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/33065

Publication date:

1.1.1994.

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