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 issuse 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.

Fasader på bostadshus.

In the report "Tillträdeskrav i allmännyttan 2013–2022" by Grander and Sjöland Kozlovic, a central aspect of the role of public housing is illuminated. Namely, the requirements and policies that affect who has access to this type of housing. The report presents a systematic follow-up from 2022 of a previous (2013) national survey of local rental requirements, aiming at following up and analyzing changes in the requirements and their potential causes.

Research projects

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Publications

SBV Working Paper Series

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

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

Thapar-Björkert & Villacura (2021) - Article

Röster från Järva: covid-19, segregation och det vardagliga livet

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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