Tenure type mixing and segregation

Abstract

We examine the 'overlap' or to which degree tenure form patterns are similar to socio-economic segregation patterns. The issue has been discussed concerning mixing policies; does mixing of tenure hinder socio-economic segregation? If mixing tenure is to be an effective policy against segregation, the overlap has to be understood. Using Swedish register data, we cross tenure-type landscapes with patterns of high/mixed/low-income and with European/non-European/Swedish-born. To what degree is there overlap among tenure, income and country of birth? Is the overlap related to geographical scale and polarization? Is the overlap of tenure forms with socio-economic characteristics consistent across regions? We find strong overlap of large-scale cooperative tenure landscapes with very high incomes as well as with Swedish-born. Small-scale tenure-landscapes provide mixing opportunities for incomes wherever they are located; however, these landscapes have a small non-Swedish-born population nearby. Some tenure-type landscapes vary in characteristics depending on location; e.g. public rental concentrated areas are high-income in urban cores but low-income in urban peripheries.

Age segregation and housing unaffordability: Generational divides in housing opportunities and spatial polarisation in England and Wales

“…The ability to enter home ownership is not only age-related and associated with access to parental support but has distinct spatial patterns (Coulter, 2018;Arundel and Ronald, 2021). A recent study by Andersson et al (2022) using extensive Swedish data found, for example, a strong degree of spatial overlap in tenure mix and socioeconomic mix across neighbourhoods. This paper brings socioeconomic mix and age segregation debates into conversation in a context of ageing and increasing housing precarity, particularly for younger people (Marcuse and Keating, 2006); it examines how lifecourse related housing market dynamics are shaping residential sorting.…”

“…The ability to enter home ownership is not only age-related and associated with access to parental support but has distinct spatial patterns (Arundel and Ronald, 2021; Coulter, 2018). A recent study by Andersson et al (2022) using extensive Swedish data found, for example, a strong degree of spatial overlap in tenure mix and socio-economic mix across neighbourhoods.…”

Migration and Neighborhood Change in Sweden: The Interaction of Ethnic Choice and Income Constraints

“…The income gradient is strongest for Swedish‐born individuals with a non‐Swedish background (individuals born in Sweden with one or two immigrant parents) and for foreign‐born individuals, but less strong for Swedish‐born individuals with a Swedish background. Outside dense settlements, there is essentially no income gradient for Swedish born individuals irrespective of them having a Swedish or non‐Swedish background, see also (Andersson, Wimark, and Malmberg 2020). But for foreign‐born individuals, there are signs of an income gradient, even though the pattern is rather diffuse.…”

(Re)visiting the neighbourhood

“…The flow on effects of socio-spatial segregation veer towards the designation of vulnerable neighbourhoods and evince claims that privilege in urban landscapes is 'simultaneously historical and spatial' (Pudilo 2000: 16), they are also maintained discursively through media rhetoric and political governance too (Norquay & Drozdzewski, 2017;Östh et al, 2018;Svallfors, 2004). Indeed, a sizeable quantity of scholarship on the neighbourhood effects of Swedish neighbourhoods has focused on socio-spatial segregation, and the outcomes of specific histories of housing tenure and development in place (Abramsson & Andersson, 2015;Andersson et al, 2020;Malmberg et al, 2013Malmberg et al, , 2018Strömblad & Malmberg, 2016;Wimark et al, 2019Wimark et al, , 2020. With pressure on housing in Swedish neighbourhoods unlikely to abate soon, and recurring media and political focus on 'vulnerable' neighbourhoods, we argue that lateral and diversified approaches to (re)visiting (Swedish) neighbourhoods from experiential, embodied and emplace perspectives -including those that extend neighbourhood effects research through qualitative approaches -is paramount and pressing.…”