Studies in Housing and Welfare (SBV) is a research group and a cross-disciplinary research environment. It deals with housing in a social context that is characterised by constant change.

Questions concerning housing have become increasingly pressing. Housing is more than four walls and a roof over one’s head. It is not only closely linked to issues of identity and well-being, but also to future prospects — for example, in terms of access to work and education.

The provision of housing is thereby crucial for a society's development in regards to equal growth and welfare. At the same time, society is facing challenges linked to changes in demographics, increased divides, and segregation —  challenges that are central issues for a socially sustainable housing provision today and in the future.

Studies in housing and welfare gather a number of research projects and researchers from different universities and faculties. The goal is to create a strong research environment that, with different perspectives and inputs, illuminates the issues of housing in an ever-changing society.

Houses and parked bicycles

The national network Housing and Welfare Research Network (HWRN) is coordinated by the research environment Studies in Housing and Welfare and funded by Forte. Besides developing and strengthening cooperation between researchers and disciplines, the network also contributes to deeper collaboration between research and practice regarding housing provision and the social aspects of housing. Seminars and other events are arranged within the framework of HWRN, of which some are open to the public.

Student sitter i fönster till sin bostad och tittar in i kameran.

Martin Grander, together with Jardar Sørvoll, are guest editors for a special issue in the Nordic Journal of Housing Research entitled "“New Perspectives on Public and Social Rental Housing in the Nordic Countries" The special issue is divided into two issues, and in the first, which was published in December, there are six articles that shed light on the social rental market in the Nordic countries. Among the authors are, apart from Martin Grander, Bo Bengtsson, Eva Wikström, Madeleine Eriksson, Matti Wirehag and Johan Mellberg.

Research projects

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Publications

SBV Working Paper Series

Mellankommunal samverkan i bostadsförsörjning: Nationella, regionala och delregionala perspektiv

Social blandning som lösning eller problem?: En diskursiv jämförelse av Selma stad och Limhamns Sjöstad

Good news for the squeezed middle?: EU’s new housing commissioner, state aid and housing systems in Sweden and the Netherlands

Bolånemarknaden för de prekära: Vilka möjligheter har atypiskt anställda?

Tillträdeskrav i allmännyttan 2013–2022

Narrating Homeownership: Media Discourse and Lived Experiences of Mortgaged Homeownership in Sweden

Salonen (2023)

Att identifiera utsatta bostadsområden: En jämförande analys mellan polisens lista och segregationsbarometern

Roelofs (2022)

Boendeperspektiv på samhällsbygget Gårdsten

Grander & Frisch (2022)

Social bostadsförsörjning i kommuner utan allmännytta: En analys av privatägd hyresrätt och den sekundära bostadsmarknaden i kommuner som saknar allmännyttiga bostäder

Urfels (2022)

From state support to market and financialization measures in crisis times: A comparative literature review of the Swedish and German housing systems

Grundström & Lazoroska (2021)

Gated communities i Sverige?: En kunskapsöversikt om motstånd och påverkan i mediedebatt och stadsbyggnad

Sandberg & Grander (2021)

Trångboddhet i Malmö: En studie av trångboddhetens ojämlika utbredning och konsekvenser

Allansson (2021)

Allmännyttans framväxt i Malmö och Göteborg: Historiska förutsättningar för de kommunala bostadsbolagens nutida ställning i städerna

Sjöland Kozlovic & Frisch (2021)

Etableringshinder, diskriminering och missgynnande: En litteraturöversikt över samband mellan etablering på hyresbostadsmarknaden och arbetsmarknaden

Lindemann & Roelofs (2020)

Blandningspolitik och strategier för social blandning: En litteraturöversikt

Grander (2020)

Segmentering i bostadsbeståndet 2013-2017: Utveckling av bostadsbestånd, demografi och socioekonomiska indikatorer i riket och storstäderna, med fördjupningar i Malmö och Göteborg

Selected other publications

Listerborn, Sahlström Negash & Yigit Turan (2025) - Chapter in book

Trygghet och social hållbarhet i stadsomvandlingsprojekt

Valli & Dunne (2025) - Journal article

Supporting Homeownership and Naturalizing Debt: The Housing Discourse in Swedish Newspapers 2005–2022

Knutagård (2025) - Chapter in book

Tackling homelessness: The strengths of the housing first approach

Samzelius (2025) - Journal article

Om viljan att vete (eller inte): en essä om fattigdom, moderskap och motstånd

Andersson & Grundström (2025) - Book

2030-talets boende med plats för livets alla skeden: om tillgänglighet och användbarhet som krav i bostadsutformningen i 12 länder

Kadioglu & Listerborn (2025) - Journal Article

The game of rental housing financialization: Institutional investors in the Swedish housing system

Listerborn (2024) - Journal article

Between smart housing and home. EU-funded climate smart interventions in Swedish public housing

Jensen (2024) - Journal article

“Both Mixed and Segregated”: Fieldwork Portraits on Living with Diversity from Sofielund, Malmö

Gustafsson, Listerborn & Molina (2024) - Journal article

Struggling for Housing Justice: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Bengtsson & Grander (2024) - Journal article 

The Influence of Interest Organisations on Swedish Rental Housing – Implications for Corporatist Theory

Grander (2024) - Report

Barns bostad först: en forskningsrapport om erfarenheterna av ett års arbete

Valli, Olesen & Parker (2024) - Journal article

Solutions in search of a problem: Opening policy windows for Business Improvement Districts in the Nordic countries

Samzelius & Ulmestig (2024) - Journal article

Talking about needs and rights in inter-agency meetings: interpretive contests in Swedish welfare provision

Tkach, Jensen & Miranda-Nieto (2024) - Journal article 

Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses

Jensen (2024) - Journal article

Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing

Grundström, Grander, Lazoroska & Molina (2024) - Journal article

Sharing housing: a solution to – or a reflection of – housing inequality?

Grander (2024) - Journal article

Two Contradictions and the Shape of Public Housing to Come: A Review of the Current State of the Municipal Public Housing Sector in Sweden

Grander & Westerdahl (2024) - Journal article

Financialization the Swedish way: How Vonovia became the largest owner of former public housing estates through transaction pathways and calculative practices

Roelofs (2024) - Doctoral dissertation

Concealed Stigmatization: Resident Experiences and Practices in Area-Based Development in Gårdsten

Grander (2024) - Journal article

Malmö in transition: What a city was, what it is and what it wants to become

Söderberg (2024) - Journal article

Multiscalar Un-homing: Residents’ Experiences of Interventions for Social Mix

Grundström & Lazoroska (2023) - Journal article

What we share: covert commoning in Swedish coliving?

Bengtsson & Grander (2023) -  Journal article

Universal and Selective Housing Regimes as Broad and Narrow Policy Fields: A Conceptual Proposal and its Application to Sweden

Sørvoll, Listerborn & Annemark Sandberg (2023) – Chapter in book

Housing And Welfare In Sweden, Norway And The Wider Nordic Region

Grander & Stephens (2023) - Edited book (eds.)

The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare

Söderberg (2023) - Journal article

’We are like butterflies’: Children’s lived experiences of evictability and (un)homing

Samzelius (2023) - Journal article

‘It’s like they are doing injustice’: A Single-Mother Perspective on Family Homelessness in Sweden

Herbert (2023) - Doctoral disseration

Vindlande vägar i bostadsojämlikhetens Sverige: berättelser om marknadspraktiker, flyktingplaceringspolitik och bostadsprekaritet

Grundström & Lelévrier (2023) - Journal article

Imposing 'Enclosed Communities'?: Urban Gating of Large Housing Estates in Sweden and France

Kusevski, Stalevska & Valli (2023) - Journal article

The Business of Improving Neighborhoods: A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden

Sandberg & Listerborn (2023) - Journal article

Contradictions Within the Swedish Welfare System: Social Services’ Homelessness Strategies Under Housing Inequality

Jensen & Righard (2023) - Journal article

At åbne op og lukke ned: Rum, mennesker og relationer i en blandet bydel i Malmø, Sverige

Grander (2023) - Report

Den kommunala allmännyttan: Fyra motsägelser och vägval för framtidens bostadsförsörjning

Holappa & Sandberg (2023) - Journal article

Hur trångbott är skäligt? – En kommentar till ändringen av Socialstyrelsens allmänna råd avseende trångboddhet

Bengtsson & Grander (2023) - Book

Bostadsfrågan som politik och intressekamp

Kärrholm, Jensen, Foroughanfar & Söderberg (2022) - Journal article

Migration, place-making and the rescaling of urban space

Grundström (2022) - Journal article

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

Grander & Sandberg (2022) - Chapter in book

En god bostad? Om bostadsyta som kvalitet i en tid av ojämlikhet

Gustafsson (2022) - Chapter in book

Lägenhetsrenoveringar och rätten till bostad

Samzelius (2022) - Chapter in book

Bostadens emancipatoriska betydelse: Den svenska jämställdhetspolitikens blinda fläck?

Westerdahl & Grander (2022) - Chapter in book

Marknadens kalkyler och rätten till bostad

Hammami & Valli (2022) - Chapter in book

‘Cleaning up’ Heritage in the Post-Industrial City: Making Heritage, Gentrification and Legitimacy in Gamlestaden

Grander & Frisch (2022) - Report

Segregation och segmentering i Trelleborg

Samzelius (2022) - Chapter in book

Den nya hemlösheten och fattigdomsparadoxen i det sociala arbetets praktik

Grander, Roelofs & Salonen (2021) - Journal article

Area-based development initiatives: a means to an end or an end in itself? – a literature overview on the case of Sweden

Grundström (2021) - Journal article

Sharing is caring?: Kollektivhus, residential hotels and co-living in the context of housing inequality in Sweden

Salonen (2021) - Book

Samhällsbygget Gårdsten: Allmännyttans framtid?

Jensen & Söderberg (2021) - Journal article

Governing urban diversity through myths of national sameness: a comparative analysis of Denmark and Sweden

Westerdahl (2021) - Journal article

Yield and the city: Swedish public housing and the political significance of changed accounting practices

Righard (2021) - Journal article

Researching the Dynamics of National Social Policy in a Globalized Society: A Proposal for a De-Nationalized Analytical Framework

Grander (2021) - Journal article

The inbetweeners of the housing markets: Young adults facing housing inequality in Malmö, Sweden

Samzelius (2020) - Doctoral dissertation

A vicious circle of silent exclusion: family homelessness and poverty in Sweden from a single mother perspective

Grander & Salonen (2020) - Article

Ökad ojämlikhet i boendet i spåren av coronapandemin

Grander (2020) - Book

Allmännyttan och jämlikheten: Svensk bostadspolitik vid vägskäl?

Roelofs & Salonen (2019) - Report

Insatser i utsatta områden: En analys av 20 års områdetutveckling och lärdomar inför framtiden

Salonen, Grander & Rasmusson (2019) - Report

Segregation och segmentering i Malmö

Rasmusson, Grander & Salonen (2018) - Report

Flyttkedjor: En litteraturöversikt över befintlig forskning om bostadsflyttkedjor

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