Jennie Gustafsson

Det var en väldigt märklig debatt

Bidragstak införs – storfamilj mister tusenlappar Regeringen föreslår en bidragsreform där socialbidrag stramas åt mest för stora barnfamiljer. För dem kan det innebära flera tusenlappar mindre i månaden.

Bidragstak, det här kommer göra livet väldigt mycket svårare för många www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Men gentrifiering handlar ju inte bara om att hyresgäster flyttar, utan även butiker eller ”brukare”, att vissa gruppers användning av staden förflyttas till en annan plats, och det ser vi ju på Möllan (Bagdad Livs)

Nej alla sitter lite fast, men tror det kanske kommer röra på sig när/om marknaden ändras (folk vågar sig bostadslån lite mer igen).

Alltså blir utfallet av hyresförhandlingarna beroende av maktförhållandena, och det är därför det är viktigt med en stor allmännytta och ett starkt hyresgästkollektiv.

Skulle också säga att hyresmarknaden inte är reglerad. Det är förhandlingar mellan parterna som formar hyresmarknaden, och då dessa är inte reglerade (ingen lag sätter ett tag än för hyreshöjningarna).

Och detta är ju delvis kopplat till Malmömodellen, dvs att läge faktiskt spelar roll vid hyresförhandlingar. Men här spelar nog Triangelstationens öppnande större roll än kaffebarerna. Men också utvecklingen av tex Friisgatan.

Dock tror jag att fastighetsägarna lär sig kapitalisera på hipsterutbudet—problemet är dock (som väll är din poäng) att det inte är hipsterns fel utan problemet är att det är möjligt för fastighetsägarna att göra detta.

Det kanske bara är jag men visst varvas nyheterna med ena dagen lättsmälta/populistiska/till synes ointressanta nyheter som mobilförbud i grundskolan och minskad kommunalskatt och andra dagen repressiva förslag om att sänka straffåldern till 13. Valår coming up

Scandinavian University Press

This long time coming article co-authered with the amazing @idaborg.bsky.social is finally out in Nordic Journal of Housing Research, where we scrutinize suburban poverty trends among private rental and public housing tenants in Malmö www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

Random Icelandic buildings

SVT Nyheter Miljödata går förlorad – 30 år av mätningar i Östersjön stoppade

För att kunna lösa ett problem (Östersjön dör) måste man först förstå det (mäta föroreningarna). Därför slutar den SD-styrda regeringen nu att mäta

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A rightwing minister told Sweden to get tough on crime – until his own son was caught in a Nazi scandal | Martin Gelin In our current political climate, why is migration minister Johan Forssell surprised that a teenage boy might be drawn to extremism? asks journalist Martin Gelin

My latest for The Guardian:
A government that claims to take concerns over crime and national security seriously, while ignoring violent neo-nazi groups, will struggle with its credibility.
Sweden has a long tradition of refusing to talk about racism. Racism could still decide the next election:

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Call for papers for IUR workshop: In the cracks of the asset economy. Housing assets and class formation in contemporary property landscapes - Institute for Urban Research When: 27-28 November 2025 Where: Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona What: Workshop to prepare contributions to a Special Issue. Target journal: International Journal of Urban and Regional Re...

Check out this workshop! www.iuresearch.se/call-for-pap...

Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology Specific subject description The Human Ecology Division applies an inter-disciplinary definition of its research field. Research and education at the division deals with human-environmental relations

Assistant professorship in Human ecology at the dept of Human Geography at Lund Uni just out. Please circulate to anyone working with nature-human relationships who might would want to work out of Lund. Personally hoping people interested in planning issues apply! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

remember how Berlin citizens voted to take back the city from corporate landlords in 2021? it was an emancipatory promise many applauded.
since then, corporate landlords increased their stronghold on the city to 25% of housing stok, and w it, rents went up by 9% annually.

Thanks to the crew at @iurmalmo.bsky.social and @martingrander.bsky.social for making this possible!

These actors might also be vulnerable to inflation and increasing interest rates, especially considering the expected returns to their shareholders, which in turn can incentivize rent increases to cover rising costs.

The institutional investors’ ownership of rental housing raises several questions regarding how local governments can secure their housing provision, especially considering how residential property actors might use rent-increasing investment strategies.

In contrast, France has experienced less privatization of its social housing sector, and its private rental sector is dominated by individual landlords.

We discuss the different experiences of rental housing investments considering the extensive privatizations of public housing in Sweden and in a context of an historically corporate private rental sector.

We also find that property investors have invested rental housing in medium-sized municipalities and towns in Sweden, especially during the low-interest-rate era.

We find that institutional investors (e.g. pension/insurance/sovereign wealth funds being shareholders of residential property companies, such as Heimstaden and Victoriahem) own more than 24% of the private rental housing stock in Sweden. In France, the number is significantly less—not more than 5%.

Perfect way to start the summer with a new publication part of the Studies in Housing and Welfare’s working paper series: Variegated Experiences of Rental Housing Financialization: Residential Property Investors in France and Sweden, with @matthieuvogt.bsky.social: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

Student anthology project. Abstract submission deadline and schedule.

Did you miss this the first time around?
Call for papers - Are you or do you know a student who has written (or is writing) an academic work on Palestine? Submit an abstract of your text via the Tally form (post 2) or contact us by email (post 4). Deadline 4 July!
All the best,
The anthology team

Come work with us! Human Geo at Lund U is looking for TT assistant prof no more than five years from their Phd who is interested in planning and have some knowledge about LLM, AI, spatial modelling etc: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/.... Please share widely, and get in touch with Qs if you have em.

Kriminologen säger också att Sverige går helt fel väg - fängelser är ”a terrible waste of government money”. Lyssna!

Vårt offentliga språk rymde ett folkmord JOHANNES ANYURU: Gazas män bär vår mänsklighet i sina händer

Läs detta: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/vg2...

Och fortsätt agera!

Great lecture by @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social on embodied thermal justice with @iurmalmo.bsky.social and Network of Global South Urbanism(s)