The social complexity of the public housing sector in Swedish metropolitan areas

Murdie, Robert A.; Borgegård, Lars-Erik

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“…The reasons given are factors such as an increase of immigration of black Caribbeans, income constraints, family composition and supply, cost and discrimination in the rental housing market. Within the Metropolitan Toronto Housing Authority housing stock concentrations of these groups are found especially in suburban high rise developments (Murdie and Borgegård, 1994).…”

Section: Segregation and Marginalisationmentioning

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Changing welfare states and social housing: Consequences for spatial segregation ‐ reviewed

Abramsson

Borgegård

1998

Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research

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Abramsson, M. and L.-E. Borgegård: Changing Welfare States and Social Housing: Consequences for spatial segregation -Reviewed. SHPR 15: 149-173, 1998.Most western countries have reached a peak of welfare and are facing cuts to their welfare programmes. Housing policies and the housing market are similarly going through changes with regard to ownership, rent levels and market prices. The process can be characterised in terms of privatisation, deregulation and a residualisation of the social housing sector. So far changes in Sweden have been slow. To understand the process of change a review of international studies involving Denmark, Finland, Germany (former West Germany), Great Britain, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia has been carried out. All countries have adopted a welfare state concept for their development after 1945. Since the 1970's there has been a change in attitude towards social housing. This study shows that the social housing sector seems to become smaller and/or more marginalised leading to an increase in spatial segregation and a polarisation between various socio-economic groups in society. When the sector becomes smaller the households that remain are low-income households. Even if the sector remains intact the increase in low-income households in society as a whole leads to a larger share of these households in the social housing sector. However, it seems to be the extent to which a social housing sector has become residualised rather than the size that determine the rate of segregation. Great Britain has a comparatively large social housing sector but it is to a greater extent residualised than the smaller social housing sector in Denmark. The willingness of various governments to reduce or change the social housing sector seems to be part of a change in the welfare state as such. Together with cuts in welfare programs this results in a growing number of poor households that are finding it difficult to find housing they can afford. With current government policies the housing situation for this group is likely to get worse.

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Section: Segregation and Marginalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing welfare states and social housing: Consequences for spatial segregation ‐ reviewed

Abramsson

Borgegård

1998

Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research

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Immigration, Spatial Segregation and Housing Segmentation of Immigrants in Metropolitan Stockholm, 1960-95

Murdie

Borgegård

1998

Urban Studies

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Immigration policy and the origins of immigrants coming to Sweden have changed dramatically during the post-World War Two period. During the same period, changes in housing policy have affected the type of accommodation available to immigrants and refugees. It is within the context of these and other changes that we develop a model of the driving forces behind spatial segregation and housing segmentation in Sweden and document and evaluate shifts in the spatial segregation and housing segmentation of immigrants in the Stockholm region between 1960 and 1995.

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The social complexity of the public housing sector in Swedish metropolitan areas

Cited by 2 publications

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Changing welfare states and social housing: Consequences for spatial segregation ‐ reviewed

Changing welfare states and social housing: Consequences for spatial segregation ‐ reviewed

Immigration, Spatial Segregation and Housing Segmentation of Immigrants in Metropolitan Stockholm, 1960-95

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