Possibilities of building a mixed city – evidence from Swedish cities

Bergsten, Zara; Holmqvist, Emma

doi:10.1080/14616718.2013.809211

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“…Social mix was supposed to be achieved through new construction and renewal to obtain a more varied housing stock, while not being imposed on anyone and not targeting specific groups, to avoid discrimination and violation of the free-choice principle (Andersson, Bråmå, and Holmqvist 2010). Compared with social mix policies in other countries, the aim of the Swedish policy has been not only to change disadvantaged neighbourhoods, but to create cities that are mixed in their entirety (Bergsten and Holmqvist 2013). However, the indirectness of the measures, the withdrawal of state production subsidies, and the voluntary nature of policy implementation (i.e.…”

Section: Swedish Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrants’ mobility towards native-dominated neighbourhoods: the role of individual resources, country of origin, and settlement context

Kadarik

2019

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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In Sweden, immigrants' integration and residential patterns are much disputed. Segregation is seen as a threat to social cohesion and policies at least rhetorically aim to create mixed neighbourhoods. Immigrants' settlement patterns and residential mobility are often explained with competing spatial assimilation and place stratification theories. Building from these two theories, this study investigates immigrants' mobility towards native-dominated neighbourhoods by clarifying the role of immigrants' country of origin in association with socioeconomic status, while emphasizing the importance of settlement context. The paper presents a survival analysis based on everyone who migrated to Sweden from 1990 to 2010. The conclusion is that immigrants' backgrounds strongly shape residential outcomes, and that spatial integration can be facilitated by a better housing market position at the start of the housing career in Sweden, by labour market participation, and good educational attainment. There are better prospects of ending up in native-dominated neighbourhoods outside metropolitan areas, whereas in metropolitan areas, increase in income has less impact on residential mobility and the opportunity structures for spatial integration are much more constrained, especially for refugees. The study finds more support for the place stratification theory, especially for the weak version, than for spatial assimilation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Swedish Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrants’ mobility towards native-dominated neighbourhoods: the role of individual resources, country of origin, and settlement context

Kadarik

2019

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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“…It is a form of limited equity cooperative whose legal structure in Sweden has been described as paradoxical (Ruonavaara, 2005) as well as unique and confusing (Scanlon and Whitehead, 2004). Decision-making for the housing cooperative is in the hands of a committee that might not have experience in property management (Bergsten and Holmqvist, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building inspection in multi-dwelling housing and the perception of building quality

Zalejska‐Jonsson

Muyingo

2019

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Principal-agency problems due to hidden incentives might be amplified, for example, under circumstances when unjustified trust in an inspector is associated with higher perception of building quality. This paper sets out to determine whether a significant difference exists in the owner’s perception of the building quality based on the perception of the inspector and the inspection process within multi-dwelling housing. A principal-agent theoretical perspective and the question of trust is applied on data from a survey sent to 1563 housing cooperatives in Sweden and analysed using a one-sided ANOVA as well as Kruskal-Wallis and post-hoc Dunn’s test. The major finding is that differences in perception associated with the company size of the developer, the timing of the inspection as well as the complexity of the process for the owners affects reported defect. The main implication is that efforts to address shortcomings related to the gap between the developer and the owner, in the context of building quality and perceived severity of defects, need to be customised to different owner groups. A better understanding of the inspection process by the owner improves active participation, which leads to efficient quality improvement. Society benefits from improved comprehension and utilisation of the results.

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“…There were no specific subsidies for tenure mix, but municipal housing companies could use the general subsidies for new housing until the beginning of the 1990s. It should be stressed that municipalities in Sweden have a planning monopoly, making them the sole decider of what tenure is allowed in a specific location (Bergsten & Holmqvist, 2013). This means that new housing areas were and still are planned with a mix of tenures in mind (Andersson & Turner, 2014).…”

Section: Changes In Swedish Housing Policy and Tenure Formsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Demolition of housing is also a way of achieving tenure mix in some areas. However, demolition has never been used to any great extent for achieving tenure mix (Bergsten & Holmqvist, 2013). Table 1 shows the amount of new housing, tenure conversions and demolition in Sweden since the 1990s.…”

Section: Changes In Swedish Housing Policy and Tenure Formsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Critical geographers have shown that neoliberal policies can cause gentrification (see, e.g. Andersson, 2013;Andersson & K€ ahrik, 2015;Andersson & Turner, 2014;Bergsten & Holmqvist, 2013;Boterman & Gent, 2014;Grundstr€ om & Molina, 2016;Hedin et al, 2012;Hochstenbach, 2016), which is a process of neighbourhood change (e.g. renewal of housing, tenure conversions, new buildings) in which the population composition changes through the inflow of higher income groups and the (in)direct displacement of lower income groups (see Davidson & Lees, 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Tenure type landscapes and housing market change: a geographical perspective on neo-liberalization in Sweden

2019

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Discussions of tenure mix have received renewed interest as many have suggested that neo-liberalization has made way for gentrification of neighbourhoods and increasing segregation. Yet, few scholars have studied country-wide changes in tenure mix, due to the lack of data and appropriate methods. In this article, we propose to use tenure type landscapes to analyse changes in housing policy. We do so while acknowledging the evolution of housing policies in Sweden since 1990. Using individualized and multi-scalar tenure type landscapes to measure change in neighbourhoods, we analyse housing clusters in 1990 and 2012. We show that the tenure landscape in 1990 at the height of the welfare state was fairly diverse and mixed. During the next 22 years, however, the landscape changed to become more homogenized and dominated by ownership through tenure conversions and new housing. We argue that awareness of these changes is essential to understanding present and future segregation and gentrification processes.

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Possibilities of building a mixed city – evidence from Swedish cities

Cited by 25 publications

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Immigrants’ mobility towards native-dominated neighbourhoods: the role of individual resources, country of origin, and settlement context

Immigrants’ mobility towards native-dominated neighbourhoods: the role of individual resources, country of origin, and settlement context

Building inspection in multi-dwelling housing and the perception of building quality

Tenure type landscapes and housing market change: a geographical perspective on neo-liberalization in Sweden

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