The new housing precariat: experiences of precarious housing in Malmö, Sweden

Listerborn, Carina

doi:10.1080/02673037.2021.1935775

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“…Housing segregation in Sweden's three largest metropolitan areas, Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö, is considered a concern with a large societal impact and a driver of inequalities at large (Hedin et al, 2012). On the one hand, research points towards increased precarity: a decrease in housing standards and in the size of newly constructed dwellings (Grundström, 2021b), a displacement of vulnerable groups due to renoviction (Baeten et al, 2016), a lack of affordable housing and an emerging housing precariat (Listerborn, 2018). On the other hand, research shows an increase in housing wealth among privileged groups (Christophers & O'Sullivan, 2018) and a housing sector engaged in constructing dwellings for middle-income and wealthier groups.…”

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Shared Housing as Public Space? The Ambiguous Borders of Social Infrastructure

Grundström

2022

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The Folkhem era in Sweden set high architectural standards for social infrastructures dispersedly located in cities. Over the past two decades, however, Swedish planning, when it comes to the localization of social infrastructure, has been increasingly characterized by privatized social infrastructures added to housing. Methodologically, this article draws on a compilation of architectural designs of shared housing that includes social infrastructure, 12 interviews with developers, and 22 interviews with residents. The article argues, first, that two historical approaches can be identified: one in which porous borders support urban social life in and around the housing complex and another where distinct boundaries form an edge where things end. Secondly, the article argues that in recent shared housing complexes, the infrastructures of fitness, health care, and privatized services—previously available solely in the public realm—have moved physically and mentally closer to the individual, largely replacing residents’ everyday use of public space. The article concludes that in recent shared housing complexes, ambiguous<em> </em>borders are formed. Ambiguous borders allow a flow of goods and people, but the flow is based on the needs and preferences of residents only. Overall, such privatization counteracts the development of urban social life while adding to housing inequality, as this form of housing is primarily accessible only to the relatively wealthy. Furthermore, there is a risk that urban planning may favour such privatization to avoid maintenance costs, even though the aim of planning for general public accessibility to social infrastructure is thereby shifted towards planning primarily for specific groups.

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Shared Housing as Public Space? The Ambiguous Borders of Social Infrastructure

Grundström

2022

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“…In addition to the displacement pressure through renovation schemes of rental housing, it should also be clarified that there is a shortage of affordable housing in Sweden, leading to long queues for housing in larger cities, and a growing sublet market where the new housing precariat ends up (Listerborn, 2021). Since the socalled system shift in Swedish politics in the early 1990s, where Swedish housing policies turned neoliberal (Hedin et al, 2012), a large amount of rental housing has been turned into tenant-owner occupation, rendering even less housing to the rental sector and affordability.…”

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“…In the case of Landskrona, which we have described in length elsewhere (Baeten & Listerborn, 2015, 2021Listerborn & Baeten, 2016), a new policy called the Crossroad Plan was developed in 2012 to change the social composition of residents. The process caught attention when the Mayor declared in the local newspaper: 'My message to all welfare benefit recipients is: do not move to Landskrona.…”

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Struggling with Conceptual Framings to Understand Swedish Displacement Processes

Listerborn

Baeten

2022

Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography

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Research on displacement has a long trajectory in Western geography and urban studies. In a Swedish context theory formation around displacement re-emerged in the 2010s as a response to an increasingly heated housing market, increased gentrification and growing homelessness, and as a consequence of ‘renoviction’ processes. Learning from empirical research in Sweden, the Nordic experiences differ from the Anglo-American context, and set ground for a theoretical discussion on how to understand the specificities of displacement processes in (post-)welfare societies. In this chapter we investigate some Swedish manifestations of displacement that cannot easily be grasped by conceptual apparatuses often developed in an Anglo-American context. The process of displacement in a Swedish (and Nordic) context is often more indirect and slower but its eventual outcomes have the same damaging effects on its victims. The chapter provides both an historical and contemporary view of Swedish displacement processes and practices, and we argue that we cannot uncritically import a conceptual apparatus that grew out of other socio-spatial contexts and develop particular understandings of displacement based on Nordic empirical observations.

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“…Det är många grupper som i dag har det mycket svårt att komma in på den ordinarie bostadsmarknaden. Forskare har pekat på framväxten av ett bostadsprekariat (Listerborn, 2021) som till stor del består av människor med utländsk bakgrund. Denna bostadsojämlikhet drabbar bredare grupper i samhället än dem som definieras som hemlösa.…”

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Socialt arbete i förändring

2022

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Socialhögskolan i Lund fyller 75 år, detta har firats med olika aktiviteter och nu har vi också glädjen att presentera en jubileumsbok. För två år sedan samlades en redaktion för att dra upp riktlinjerna för vad en sådan bok skulle innehålla och hur arbetsprocessen skulle se ut. Vi kom fram till att två personer skulle ansvara för det operativa arbetet med redaktionen som bollplank. För oss, Anna och Torbjörn, som tog på oss redaktörskapet, har strävan efter att involvera så många som möjligt i arbetet med boken varit viktig. Vi utsåg temaledare, men inom varje tema har det funnits möjligheter för alla medarbetare att meddela intresse att skriva.Boken består av två delar där den ena handlar om Socialhögskolans verksamhet och den andra om olika utvecklingstendenser i socialt arbete. Tanken har varit att texterna ska intressera såväl praktiker som studenter och förhoppningsvis vara användbara i olika typer av ut-och fortbildning.Det har varit både intressant och roligt att arbeta med framtagandet av boken och vi vill inledningsvis tacka alla som har bidragit med texter. Men förutom författare har det också funnits andra som har varit betydelsefulla i arbetsprocessen kring boken. Den ursprungliga redaktionen har varit ett stöd under arbetet, där vi kunnat diskutera tankar och olika överväganden. Denna redaktion bestod av Håkan Jönson, Kerstin Svensson, Marcus Knutagård, Hans Swärd och Lars Harrysson. Vi tackar er alla för värdefull input. Det hade inte blivit någon jubileumsbok om vi inte också fått hjälp med språkgranskning, sättning och formgivning. Stort tack till Mikael Bengtsson, Lars Harrysson och Sandra Jeppsson för all tid ni lagt ner. Vi vill också tacka prefekt Katarina Jacobsson för stöd och uppmuntran.

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The new housing precariat: experiences of precarious housing in Malmö, Sweden

Cited by 26 publications

References 42 publications

Shared Housing as Public Space? The Ambiguous Borders of Social Infrastructure

Shared Housing as Public Space? The Ambiguous Borders of Social Infrastructure

Struggling with Conceptual Framings to Understand Swedish Displacement Processes

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