The lecture will be introduced and moderated by Professor in Human Geography Per Gunnar Røe.
Coffee and light snacks will be served.
The event is free and open for all, but please register in advance here.
About the lecture
Housing policy represents a complex field with a range of collaborative professions, decisions being made across many scales and levels, where the market plays a deciding role. This has created a large degree of path-dependency and made it difficult to work for inclusion in the housing market in a substantial way.
In this lecture Berit Irene Nordahl and Anna Granath Hansson will present the research project Strategic Housing, where they have explored how knowledge, capacity and willingness for change can be developed, and what policy instruments are needed to ensure more inclusive and sustainable housing policy.
Nordahl will approach the issue from a micro-perspective and present how this project has analyzed what is needed for municipalities to be able to both provide sufficient housing construction as well as ensure that new housing projects are contributing to inclusion and diversity at the lowest possible level. The project has also clarified how the new models for housing transactions contributes to increase the availability of housing for low-income households, and explored how housing developers locally are positioned in order to carry out housing projects that have redistributive effects.
Granath Hansson will present a comparative study of affordable housing construction policies in Copenhagen, Hamburg, Oslo and Stockholm. In all the four cities, public policy explicitly states that new housing should be provided in many price and rent segments with the aim of reaching wider shares of the population and contributing to socially mixed neighborhoods. But how have these cities developed this kind of housing policy in practice and what housing policy instruments are used to achieve the designated goals?
About the speakers
Berit Irene Nordahl is a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) at Oslo Metropolitan University. Nordahl has worked with a range of different issues concerning housing and planning and is especially interested in the relationship between different market actors and the public authorities, as well as how to facilitate an inclusive and equitable housing provision.
Anna Granath Hansson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic research institute Nordregio and affiliated to KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Having a background in real estate economics and law, her main research interest is the intersection between affordable housing, land and planning.