Municipal Housing Companies in Sweden – Social by Default

Autor:	Lena Magnusson Turner, Bengt Turner
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Level playing field Economic growth Index (economics) Sociology and Political Science Public housing Development Metropolitan area Urban Studies Economics Position (finance) media_common.cataloged_instance Demographic economics European union Rural area Social responsibility media_common
Zdroj:	Housing, Theory and Society. 25:275-296
ISSN:	1651-2278 1403-6096
DOI:	10.1080/14036090701657397
Popis:	An important issue in Sweden is the extent to which the public (or municipal) housing sector is a tenure form open to everyone and is on a level playing field with other tenure forms. The issue became more important when the European Union stated that public companies must have a pronounced social role, given their favourable institutional position. This paper reveals that vulnerable families are overrepresented in public housing, compared to other tenure forms, especially in the metropolitan cities and in the larger cities. This pattern is less pronounced in other cities and in rural areas. An index is constructed which measures the share of vulnerable families within a municipal housing company, when the share of vulnerable families within the municipality is controlled for. This index of social responsibility is used as a dependent variable in a regression analysis, using all Swedish municipalities as a database. The analysis reveals that the value of the index increases with a diminishing relative siz...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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