Renovations as an investment strategy: circumscribing the right to housing in Sweden
| العنوان: | Renovations as an investment strategy: circumscribing the right to housing in Sweden |
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| المؤلفون: | Gustafsson, Jennie |
| المصدر: | Housing Studies. 39(6):1555-1576 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Renovations, investment strategy, financialization, right to housing, private rental housing, Sweden, rätten till bostad, finansialisering, privat hyresrätt, renovering, Malmö, Herrgården, hyresmarknad |
| الوصف: | There is an emergent field of writings on financialized landlords’ undertaking of apartment renovations as an investment strategy and its effect on housing inequalities. Seldom do these studies contextualize these tendencies within countries’ specific housing policy traditions. Therefore, through a qualitative case study in a neighbourhood in Sweden, this paper aims to uncover how private landlords undertake renovations as an investment strategy and its effect on tenants and, in turn, on the hybrid character of a universal housing system. It finds that renovations enable landlords to extract value from the built environment while tenants experience rising rents, a lack of information, poor property maintenance, and apprehension. Hence, I argue that renovations represent an investment strategy that serves to undermine the traditional social right to housing within a universal housing policy context. The paper thus furthers knowledge on how the situatedness of financialization tendencies entails their translation through and transformation of housing systems. |
| وصف الملف: | electronic |
| URL الوصول: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-57833 https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1982872 https://mau.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1731227/FULLTEXT01.pdf |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SwePub |
PDF full text from Publisher | تدمد: | 02673037 14661810 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/02673037.2021.1982872 |