The Effect of Rent Regulations and Contract Structure on Renovation: A Theoretical Analysis of the Swedish System

Lind, Hans

doi:10.1080/14036096.2015.1053981

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“…The negotiated rents should spread these costs over the lifespan of the building and not impact rent levels all at once. However, recent years have seen a marked increase of so-called total makeovers in connection to renovations (Lind, 2015a(Lind, , 2015b. In a journalist survey in 2013, with 107 landlords in equally many neighborhoods (comprising a total of roughly 59000 apartments), 90% of the real estate owners said they are financing their renovations through rent increases (Sveriges Radio, 2013).…”

Section: Turn-over Renovationsmentioning

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Domicide: displacement and dispossessions in Uppsala, Sweden

Pull

Richard

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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This article investigates the lived experiences of tenants staying put in two neighborhoods undergoing urban renewal processes and increased rent levels in Uppsala, Sweden. The article is drawing on a place sensitive analysis to escape a 'Euclidean prison' that we contend underpin many displacement studies; studies that reduce the notion of displacement to only signify out-migration. Such studies often miss both the scope of displacement, and the grievances experienced by tenants following changes in place and space under various urban transformation processes. Through phenomenologically inspired interviews with tenants, we contend that place cannot, as it often is in practices of urban development, simply be understood as coordinates on a map, but has to be understood relationally. Adhering to such a place-sensitive understanding of space our study asks what changes to place and to 'home' is experienced by tenants staying put in neighborhoods under increasing displacement pressures. What surfaces is a series of displacements that can be categorized as spatial dispossessions; thematized under subcategories 'contraction of home' and 'withering entitlements', and temporal dispossessions; categorized under 'life on hold' and 'erasure of history'. These displacements are suffered by tenants who despite displacement pressures have remained throughout the renewal process. Domicide: déplacement et dépossessions à Uppsala en Suède Cet article enquête sur les expériences qu'ont vécues des locataires ayant décidé de rester dans deux quartiers en processus de renouvellement urbain et d'augmentation du niveau des loyers à Uppsala en Suède. L'article s'appuie sur une analyse sensible au lieu pour échapper à la « prison euclidienne » qui selon nous, étaye beaucoup d'études sur le déplacement, études qui réduisent la notion de déplacement au sens de migration vers l'extérieur seulement. De telles études passent souvent à côté de l'envergure du déplacement ainsi que des injustices vécues par les locataires après les changements de lieu et d'espace dans diverses conditions de transformation urbaine. A travers des ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Turn-over Renovationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domicide: displacement and dispossessions in Uppsala, Sweden

Pull

Richard

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Although this is part of the aimsif people are not forced out of their housing due to large rent adjustments, they will be less likely to moveit may have negative effects on housing and land markets. Experiences with rent control have demonstrated that more refined rent-control systems, which allow for limited rent increases, have less negative effects on the functioning of housing markets than do more stringent systems (Skak and Bloze, 2013;Lind, 2015). A transaction-based system, which captures only a part of any value increases, may therefore provide a middle ground.…”

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Land pricing upon the extension of leases in public leasehold systems

Altes

2019

JERER

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Purpose This paper aims to compare and review alternative ways to adjust public ground leases. Design/methodology/approach Based on principles derived from a review of scientific literature, alternatives for the extension of leases are discussed based on the case of Amsterdam. Findings Many alternatives lead public ground-lease systems to produce results that are the opposite of what they are intended to be (as inspired by Henry George): new improvements result in higher rent, but additional location values do not result in higher rent. One exception is the lease-adjustment-at-property-transaction alternative, which may nevertheless result in fewer transactions. Social implications Public leasehold systems are highly contested with regard to the extension of leases. Such systems are often aimed at capturing land-value gains. In practice, however, this tends to be more difficult than expected. Value capture by authorities, as intended by the system, results in counter-movements of lessees, who often gain public support to set lower leases. These political processes may even result in the termination of such public ground-lease systems. This paper reports on a search for possible solutions. Originality/value The comparison of various alternatives to ground-lease extension based on principles derived from literature is new, and it contributes insight into public ground-lease systems.

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“…Most studies on the effects of rent control have, however, focused on the impact of rent controls on the earning potential of private landlords and on their decisions on maintenance (Arnott and Shevyakhova 2014; Lind 2015), investments and the sale of rental housing (e.g., Andrews et al 2011; Autor et al 2012; Block and Olsen 1981). Enström Öst et al (2014) additionally show how rent control affects the socio-spatial distribution of housing.…”

Section: Rent Control and Price Settingmentioning

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Rent increase strategies and distributive justice: the socio-spatial effects of rent control policy in Amsterdam

Jonkman

Janssen-Jansen

Schilder

2017

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Rent controls and rent setting regulation in different contexts incorporate and balance different aims, in particular when securing affordability and the effective distribution of scarce housing by incorporating market mechanisms. As rent policy is frequently discussed in terms of affordability or market functioning in broad terms, small-scale distributive socio-spatial effects are often not regarded. In this paper, three strategies under the new rent sum policy are compared against the former policy and practice for Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to observe the effects of distributive justice. The new rent policy partly decentralizes rent increase decisions from the national level to local authorities and housing associations. Using microdata on all social housing units and their tenants’ distributive justice, outcomes under the former policy and practice are observed for a 6-year period (2008–2014) and the effects of three different rent increase strategies under the new rent sum policy are forecasted for the same period, combining an ex ante and an ex post evaluation. The possibilities for housing associations to vary rent increases for different groups of tenants in order to improve distributive justice outcomes are explored. Results show that all three possible strategies decrease the observed affordability gap between new and long-term tenants. Valuing the distributions of these strategies by applying two different standards for distributive justice shows the rent sum policy may only result in modest improvements.

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The Effect of Rent Regulations and Contract Structure on Renovation: A Theoretical Analysis of the Swedish System

Cited by 28 publications

References 14 publications

Domicide: displacement and dispossessions in Uppsala, Sweden

Domicide: displacement and dispossessions in Uppsala, Sweden

Land pricing upon the extension of leases in public leasehold systems

Rent increase strategies and distributive justice: the socio-spatial effects of rent control policy in Amsterdam

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