Markets versus Planning: An Assessment of the Swedish Housing Model in the Post-war Period

Nesslein, Thomas S.

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“…13. This is already a major improvement compared to the past: Nesslein (2003) reports that in 1963 about 40% of Stockholm's population was registered in the queue. …and might even increase segregation Magnusson and Turner (2005) find that vulnerable households are overrepresented in public housing and moreover that they are more concentrated within this sector in areas where there is a smaller share of public housing.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…This is somewhat ironic, as one of the pillars of Swedish housing policy was to not create a public housing sector for the poor but rather to attenuate housing segregation (Nesslein, 2003). However, in 2002, half of all people living in areas with employment levels below 50% had an immigrant background, an indication that this policy has not been successful in preventing spatial segregation between households with different cultural and socio-economic background.…”

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confidence: 93%

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The Swedish Housing Market

Hüfner

Lundsgaard²

2007

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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The Swedish housing market -better allocation via less regulation While several sectors in the economy have been deregulated, the Swedish housing market remains distorted, hindering an optimal matching of supply and demand. In the rental market the rent setting framework with its focus on cost-based rents in the public sector prevents a price response, leading to long queues in some regions and vacancies in others. Many Swedes that would have preferred otherwise are driven into the owner-occupied segment, where prices are increasing strongly, and rising above an estimated fundamental value. The supply of new dwellings is made more difficult by an uncompetitive construction industry, coupled with cumbersome planning regulations and few incentives for municipalities to issue more land. On the fiscal side, real estate taxes are below neutral levels, implying an indirect subsidy to housing. This paper presents a review of the recent steps to abolish real estate taxes and also proposes comprehensive reform of regulations in the rental housing sector.

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The Swedish Housing Market

Hüfner

Lundsgaard²

2007

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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“…They mostly involve a government, through the bailout of enterprises and banks (public and private) or of lower-level governments. The trend towards a soft budget constraint has been observed in real estate literature, especially in (social) housing markets (Maclennan & More, 1997;Nesslein, 2003). 6.…”

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Understanding industrial land supply: how Dutch municipalities make decisions about supplying serviced building land

Ploegmakers

Krabben

Buitelaar

2013

Journal of Property Research

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The supply side of real estate markets has remained relatively neglected compared to the body of work that studies the demand side. Consequently, little is known about the way that suppliers actually make decisions about the quantity of land and property to be made available for sale at any one time. This paper investigates how one particular type of suppliers, public developers of serviced industrial building land in the Netherlands, assess market conditions, and the way these analyses influence decisions to make more serviced building land available. This paper presents evidence from interviews amongst municipal developers and finds that profit considerations are not the main motive behind their decisions to develop industrial land. Municipalities are involved in land development primarily because they want to be able to steer local economic development. Furthermore, they also pay attention to 'nonprice' signals of market conditions -sales levels in particular -when deciding to make more land available for sale. However, we should be cautious with interpreting these results since this study only addresses public agencies, which might operate with 'soft budget constraints' and might have alternative preference functions than commercial developers.

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“…Alike many western European countries Sweden has as a part of a national housing policy promoting social mix adapted a housing mix strategy striving for, among other goals, a blend of rental-and ownership housing, i.e. a tenure mix (Andersson et al, 2010;Bergsten & Holmqvist, 2013;Holmqvist, 2009;Nesslein, 2003). Despite similarities on a general level, the Swedish policy does however show some deviating characteristics in an international context.…”

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confidence: 99%

Municipal land allocations: a key for understanding tenure and social mix patterns in Stockholm

Caesar

Kopsch

2018

European Planning Studies

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A socially mixed population is a political ambition in Stockholm. By providing a mix of tenure alternatives throughout all neighbourhoods this objective could, at least partially, be fulfilled. Since current tenure proportions display a weak balance in many neighbourhoods it could be assumed that governing politiciansby primarily utilizing Stockholm's vast landownership and municipal housing developersattempt to bridge observed gaps. Distribution of new rental and ownership apartments in municipal land allocations should acknowledge the existing tenure composition in a neighbourhood. Methodically this article focuses on all (nearly 50,000) apartments channelled through Stockholm's land allocation system between 2002 and 2012. After classification of all apartments based on tenure, location, year and developer (private or municipal) the information is merged with yearly housing stock characteristics for 128 neighbourhoods. The outcome is a unique data set allowing for statistical assessment of whether Stockholm's tenure (and in extension social) mix ambition is reflected in practice. The present article aims to highlight the crucial importance of landownership in Swedish municipalities with an aspiration to achieve or maintain a balanced tenure mix. While the findings indicate Stockholm is complying fairly well with its ambition, the results do reveal some contradicting signs.

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Markets versus Planning: An Assessment of the Swedish Housing Model in the Post-war Period

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

The Swedish Housing Market

The Swedish Housing Market

Understanding industrial land supply: how Dutch municipalities make decisions about supplying serviced building land

Municipal land allocations: a key for understanding tenure and social mix patterns in Stockholm

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