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I am human geographer researching the political economy of rental housing, real estate, municipal governance, and housing inequality.
My research interests include housing, especially the rental market and how institutional investments reconfigure rental systems and how they impact the everyday of tenants. This includes how privatization and apartment renovations alter tenure structures and affects local neigboorhoods. My research also concerns local state restructuring, as I scrutinize municipalities’ role visavi residential property investors and the broader financialization tendencies within local governance. Here, I am interesting with the intersections of municipal finance, urban planning, and property.
I am currently working in four research projects.
"Municipal governance and changing local rental markets: medium-sized municipalities’ strategies when meeting residential property investors" (Formas) aims to investigate municipal governance and residential property investors’ establishment in medium-sized municipalities.
”Renovation, privatisation and conversions of rental housing - what are the consequences?” (Vetenskapsrådet) analyses conversions, privatisations and renovations of rental housing, with Ida Borg, Stockholm university, as PI.
”How do we house our welfare? Mapping and conceptualizing privatization and re-municipalization of community service properties in Sweden”(Vetenskapsrådet) examines privatization, re-municipalization and municipal governance of community service properties in Sweden, 2013-2025. Magnus Andersson (Dept. Urban studies, Malmö University) is also part of the research group.
”Welfare for sale: privatization and re-municipalization of community service properties” (Formas) aims to develop empirically and theoretically grounded guidelines for societal actors, regarding the municipal governance of community service properties.
I am the book review editor for Housing, Theory and Society.
Research interests: rental housing, public housing, renovations, the right to housing, local state, neoliberalism, financialization, assetization
Previous projects: "Trajectories of vulnerability: A spatial perspective. (Utsatthet i longitudinella data: Ett geografiskt perspektiv.) Project time 2021-2023. The Swedish Research Council, PI Eva Andersson. VR, Dr.nr 2020-01046.
