Widening gaps: Segregation dynamics during two decades of economic and institutional change in Stockholm
Abstract Sweden has had a long tradition in providing high-quality and affordable housing for all. From the early 1990s, Swedish housing policy has shifted radically: the housing market regulation was reduced and market principles were introduced, investment subsidies were mostly abolished and the p...
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Published in | Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities pp. 110 - 131 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
Published |
United Kingdom
Routledge
2015
Taylor & Francis Group |
Series | Regions and cities |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Abstract
Sweden has had a long tradition in providing high-quality and affordable housing
for all. From the early 1990s, Swedish housing policy has shifted radically: the
housing market regulation was reduced and market principles were introduced,
investment subsidies were mostly abolished and the percentage of municipalityowned public housing has dropped, especially in the Stockholm region. In the
context of these profound changes, this chapter maps the residential socio-spatial
outcomes of the structural changes in Swedish society in general and in the
Stockholm housing market in particular. For the 1990-2010 period we study how
long-term changes in social inequality, as well as neoliberal shifts in housing policy, have modified socio-spatial formations and residential segregation. We look
both at the socio-economic and ethnic dimensions of this changing residential
landscape by applying data from a complete set of individual longitudinal registerbased data of all residents living in Stockholm. The results show that over the last
two decades, socio-economic residential segregation has increased in Stockholm.
Concentrations of low-income groups have become denser and such 'pockets of
poverty' are located mostly in and around neighbourhoods that already displayed
some social decline in 1990, mainly large housing estates from the 1960s and
1970s. We also found a 'double sorting' process whereby low-income natives tend
to live in other areas than low-income non-Western immigrants. |
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ISBN: | 9781138794931 1138794937 |
DOI: | 10.4324/9781315758879-13 |