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Bengtsson, B. (2024). Politiska intentioner och utvärdering i kohandelns tid: En pågående dialog med Evert Vedung. In: Marianne Danielsson; Nils Hertting (Ed.), Samtal om idéer, utvärdering och samhällsförändring: En vänbok till Evert Vedung (pp. 181-192). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Politiska intentioner och utvärdering i kohandelns tid: En pågående dialog med Evert Vedung
2024 (Swedish)In: Samtal om idéer, utvärdering och samhällsförändring: En vänbok till Evert Vedung / [ed] Marianne Danielsson; Nils Hertting, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024, p. 181-192Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
Series
Uppsala Housing and Urban Studies ; 2
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-524495 (URN)978-91-513-2008-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-03-06 Created: 2024-03-06 Last updated: 2024-03-11Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, B. (2023). Comparing the unique: on the comparative study of housing and welfare regimes. In: Martin Grander; Mark Stephens (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare: (pp. xiv-xix). Abingdon; New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Comparing the unique: on the comparative study of housing and welfare regimes
2023 (English)In: The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare / [ed] Martin Grander; Mark Stephens, Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023, p. xiv-xixChapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-519616 (URN)9781003212690 (ISBN)9781032074337 (ISBN)9781032080529 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-01-09 Created: 2024-01-09 Last updated: 2024-03-15Bibliographically approved
Blackwell, T. & Bengtsson, B. (2023). The resilience of social rental housing in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark: How institutions matter. Housing Studies, 38(2), 269-289
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The resilience of social rental housing in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark: How institutions matter
2023 (English)In: Housing Studies, ISSN 0267-3037, E-ISSN 1466-1810, Vol. 38, no 2, p. 269-289Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper evaluates the resilience of social rental housing in the UK, Sweden and Denmark. Throughout the OECD, processes of retrenchment and privatization, alongside the growth of the owner-occupied and private rental sectors, have led to nigh universal declines in the size and scope of social rental housing. These processes have not transpired evenly, however. Embracing a historical institutionalist approach, alongside novel data and methodology, this paper assesses the variegated patterns of sectoral decline and resilience in these three northern European countries. We find the Danish, association-based model - with its polycentric governance and multi-level system of financing - to have been the most robustly resilient hitherto. In the UK and Sweden, we observe patterns of decline and evidence that the non-profit and needs-based principles which traditionally underpinned these systems have reached precarious thresholds. Nevertheless, despite manifold retrograde threats and vulnerabilities over the past decades, the social rental sectors in Sweden and the UK have proved surprisingly resilient.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2023
Keywords
Social rental housing, Resilience, Historical institutionalism
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447663 (URN)10.1080/02673037.2021.1879996 (DOI)000619067500001 ()2-s2.0-85100966084 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas
Available from: 2021-06-29 Created: 2021-06-29 Last updated: 2023-03-02Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, B. & Grander, M. (2023). Universal and Selective Housing Regimes as Broad and Narrow Policy Fields. A Conceptual Proposal and its Application to Sweden. Tidsskrift for boligforskning, 6(2), 90-105
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Universal and Selective Housing Regimes as Broad and Narrow Policy Fields. A Conceptual Proposal and its Application to Sweden
2023 (English)In: Tidsskrift for boligforskning, ISSN 2535-5988, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 90-105Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A fundamental distinction in welfare state research is the one between universal and selective policies. Consequently, housing researchers often categorize national housing regimes under one of these headings. However, since housing is typically distributed via markets – although with state correctives – and not directly by means of state distribution, the borderline between universal and selective housing policies is seldom clear-cut. This article proposes a framework that can be applied both to housing and other welfare sectors, based on the distinction between a broad and narrow policy field and applicable to institutions, discourses and outcomes on different political levels: national welfare regimes, sector regimes (like housing) and policy instruments.In the article, this framework is applied critically to the Swedish housing regime, which is often understood as being universal. Swedish housing policy and its central policy instruments are analysed in terms of universality and selectivity, together with the housing discourse and the social and economic outcome. The article also discusses how the development of recent years, for example, the increased commercialism of public housing, the spread of so-called social contracts and the recurring ideas about “social housing” can be understood in terms of universal and selective housing policy.

Abstract [sv]

En grundläggande distinktion inom välfärdsstatsforskningen är den mellan generell och selektiv politik. Även nationella bostadspolitiska regimer diskuteras ofta med hjälp av dessa kategorier. Men eftersom bostäder normalt distribueras via marknaden – om än med statliga korrektiv – och inte genom direkt statlig tilldelning, är gränsen mellan generell och selektiv bostadspolitik sällan entydig. Artikeln föreslår ett teoretiskt ramverk som kan tillämpas både på bostadspolitiken och på andra välfärdssektorer, baserat på distinktionen mellan ett brett och snävt politikområde, och tillämpbart på institutioner, diskurser och utfall på olika politiska nivåer: den nationella välfärdsregimen, sektorsregimer (som bostäder) och enskilda policyinstrument.Detta ramverk presenteras i artikeln och tillämpas därefter kritiskt på den svenska bostadspolitiska regimen, som ofta förstås som generell. Svensk bostadspolitik och dess centrala policyinstrument analyseras i termer av generalitet och selektivitet, tillsammans med den bostadspolitiska diskursen och det sociala och ekonomiska utfallet av den bostadspolitiska regimen. I artikeln diskuteras också hur de senaste årens utveckling – till exempel den ökade marknadsanpassningen av den allmännyttiga bostadssektorn, spridningen av så kallade sociala kontrakt och återkommande idéer om “social housing” – kan förstås i termer av generell och selektiv bostadspolitik.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS, 2023
Keywords
housing regime, policy field, selectivity, universality, Sweden, boligregime, politikkfelt, selektivitet, universalitet, Sverige
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-519617 (URN)10.18261/tfb.6.2.3 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-01-09 Created: 2024-01-09 Last updated: 2024-02-20Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, B., Holdo, M. & Holmqvist, E. (2022). Allas rätt till bostad: introduktion. In: Bo Bengtsson; Markus Holdo; Emma Holmqvist (Ed.), Allas rätt till bostad: Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar (pp. 11-22). Göteborg: Daidalos
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Allas rätt till bostad: introduktion
2022 (Swedish)In: Allas rätt till bostad: Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar / [ed] Bo Bengtsson; Markus Holdo; Emma Holmqvist, Göteborg: Daidalos, 2022, , p. 376p. 11-22Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Daidalos, 2022. p. 376
National Category
Economic Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-493210 (URN)9789171736604 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-01-12 Created: 2023-01-12 Last updated: 2023-08-23Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, B., Holdo, M. & Holmqvist, E. (Eds.). (2022). Allas rätt till bostad: Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar. Göteborg: Daidalos
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Allas rätt till bostad: Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar
2022 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Alla behöver någonstans att bo. Bostaden är så central för vår välfärd att vi ser den som en mänsklig rättighet. Bostadsfrågan skär in i flera olika politikområden och kan diskuteras från vitt skilda utgångspunkter. Var – och hur – vi bor påverkar i hög grad vårt handlingsutrymme och våra framtidsutsikter. De ojämlika förutsättningarna på bostadsmarknaden är en av de tydligaste klassmarkörerna i dagens Sverige.

I antologin "Allas rätt till bostad" analyserar 28 bostads- och urbanforskare från olika akademiska discipliner svensk bostadspolitik, dess förutsättningar, historiska utveckling och konkreta resultat. En socialt medveten bostadspolitik behöver inte minst förhålla sig till den växande ojämlikheten i det svenska samhället. Men den bostadspolitik som har förts, med privatiseringar och vinstkrav även på offentligt ägda bolag, har tvärtom fått klyftorna att växa. Hyresrätten är till exempel idag klart missgynnad jämfört med bostadsägandet. Antologins texter diskuterar också – bland mycket annat – den betydelse bostadsbidraget, besittningsskyddet, byggindustrin och barnkonventionen kan ha i ett vidare bostadspolitiskt perspektiv.Bostadspolitiken är en ödesfråga för många människor och för ett demokratiskt samhälle. Antologin visar att  det krävs mer debatt och politisk fantasi och större rättvisa i bostadsfrågan än vi ser i dag.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Daidalos, 2022. p. 376
National Category
Economic Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-491568 (URN)9789171736604 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-12-21 Created: 2022-12-21 Last updated: 2023-05-02Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, B. (2022). Bostaden som social rättighet: vad betyder det?. In: Bo Bengtsson; Markus Holdo; Emma Holmqvist (Ed.), Allas rätt till bostad: Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar (pp. 23-36). Göteborg: Daidalos
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Bostaden som social rättighet: vad betyder det?
2022 (Swedish)In: Allas rätt till bostad: Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar / [ed] Bo Bengtsson; Markus Holdo; Emma Holmqvist, Göteborg: Daidalos, 2022, , p. 376p. 23-36Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Daidalos, 2022. p. 376
National Category
Economic Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-491570 (URN)9789171736604 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-12-21 Created: 2022-12-21 Last updated: 2023-08-24Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, B. & Hertting, N. (2021). Rationality and portability: Case study research in practice. In: Jani Erola, Päivi Naumanen, Hanna Kettunen & Vesa-Matti Paasivaara (Ed.), Norms, Social Structures and Policy Changes: Essays in honor of Hannu Ruonavaara (pp. 41-60). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Rationality and portability: Case study research in practice
2021 (English)In: Norms, Social Structures and Policy Changes: Essays in honor of Hannu Ruonavaara / [ed] Jani Erola, Päivi Naumanen, Hanna Kettunen & Vesa-Matti Paasivaara, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021, p. 41-60Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021
Series
Uppsala Housing and Urban Studies ; 1
National Category
Political Science
Research subject
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-465995 (URN)978-91-513-1235-4 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-01-21 Created: 2022-01-21 Last updated: 2024-01-12Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, B. & Jensen, L. (2021). Unitary housing regimes in transition: comparing Denmark and Sweden from a perspective of path dependence and change. In: Jani Erola, Päivi Naumanen, Hanna Kettunen, Vesa-Matti Paasivaara (Ed.), Norms, moral and social structures: Essays in honour of Hannu Ruonavaara (pp. 201). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Unitary housing regimes in transition: comparing Denmark and Sweden from a perspective of path dependence and change
2021 (English)In: Norms, moral and social structures: Essays in honour of Hannu Ruonavaara / [ed] Jani Erola, Päivi Naumanen, Hanna Kettunen, Vesa-Matti Paasivaara, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021, p. 201-Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021
Series
Uppsala Housing and Urban Studies ; 1
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-418793 (URN)978-91-513-1235-4 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-09-03 Created: 2020-09-03 Last updated: 2022-08-24Bibliographically approved
Liu, J., Bengtsson, B., Bohman, H. & Pauli, K. S. (2020). A System Model and An Innovation Approach toward Sustainable Housing Renovation. Sustainability, 12(3), Article ID 1130.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A System Model and An Innovation Approach toward Sustainable Housing Renovation
2020 (English)In: Sustainability, E-ISSN 2071-1050, Vol. 12, no 3, article id 1130Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Housing renovation is a common concern to owners, tenants and to society at large. In addition to the high economic costs, the implementation of housing renovation usually have a long-term impact on the society and the built environment. This is a theoretical paper that develops a system model for understanding sustainable housing renovation as a system phenomenon which has multiple sustainability goals, complicated dynamic processes, diverse actors, and a sophisticated institutional environment. It identifies the key challenges of a sustainable housing renovation system, namely the conflicting sustainability goals and the conflicting stakeholder interests. To address these two challenges, the paper suggests an innovation approach in which the process of innovation (linear versus organic) and the typology of innovation (product versus process and business versus social) toward sustainable housing renovation are discussed.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI AG, 2020
Keywords
sustainability, housing renovation, conflicting sustainability goals, conflicting stakeholder interests, system, innovation
National Category
Architectural Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-410956 (URN)10.3390/su12031130 (DOI)000524899602017 ()
Available from: 2020-05-28 Created: 2020-05-28 Last updated: 2022-02-10Bibliographically approved
Projects
Housing as a right; Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)
Organisations
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ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-2505-8319

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