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2. 1. The Common Good in Common Goods - The Decommodification of Fundamental Resources through Law

   Author : Saki Bailey; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; commons; common goods; shareable goods; legal theory; social theory; socio-legal theory; property theory; critical legal theory; critical approaches to law; post-capitalist approaches to law; post-marxist approaches to law; post-liberal approaches to law; legal foundations of the market; embedding the market; strategic decommodification; decommodification; democratization of the economy; equitable access to resources; social property relations; housing policy; housing law; third-sector housing; shared limited equity; community land trusts; housing cooperatives; baugruppen; bostadsrätt; resource specific analysis; economic analysis of resources; neoliberalism.;

   Abstract : This dissertation is divided into three parts. Part I analyzes the Commons as a post-capitalist strategy accomplished through law by developing an alternative social theory of the market as a social institution. READ MORE

4. 2. Institutional Prerequisites for Housing Development : A comparative study of Germany and Sweden

   Author : Anna Granath Hansson; Hans Lind; Jenny Paulsson; Alexandra Weitkamp; KTH; []
   Keywords : housing; housing development; affordable housing; housing shortage; housing supply; urban planning; inclusionary zoning; Fastigheter och byggande; Real Estate and Construction Management;

   Abstract : The housing shortage in Swedish growth regions has been heatedly debated for a number of years. Extensive reform proposals have been made by market actors and academics. The former center–right government in power until 2014 emphasized reform of the urban planning process. READ MORE

5. 3. For the Benefit of Everyone? : Explaining the Significance of Swedish Public Housing for Urban Housing Inequality

   Author : Martin Grander; David Clapham; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : Housing; Inequality; Social Housing; Universalism; Discretion; Structures of Housing Provision; Public Housing; Housing Regimes;

   Abstract : Housing has a special place in the Swedish welfare state. Ever since Gustav Möller, Minister for Social Affairs, in 1945 was handed the result of Bostadssociala utredningen, a state investigation on housing from a social perspective, housing has been a bearing pillar in the Swedish ‘Folkhem’. READ MORE

6. 4. Peri-Urban Land Tenure in Ethiopia

   Author : Achamyeleh Gashu Adam; Peter Ekbäck; Erling Berge; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethiopia; formal; informal; land tenure; peri-urban; peri-urbanization; Real Estate and Construction Management; Fastigheter och byggande;

   Abstract : Urban areas in Ethiopia have been growing very quickly in recent decades, which haveled to ever increasing demand for land in peri-urban areas for housing and other nonagriculturalactivities. This has had several transformative impacts on the transitionalperi-urban, areas including engulfment of local communities and conversion of landrights and use from an agricultural to a built-up property rights system. READ MORE

7. 5. Institutional prerequisites for affordable housing development : A comparative study of Germany and Sweden

   Author : Anna Granath Hansson; Thomas Kalbro; Alexandra Weitkamp; KTH; []
   Keywords : affordable housing; housing policy; urban planning; building law; institutional change; Real Estate and Construction Management; Fastigheter och byggande;

   Abstract : This thesis was written against the background of intense public debate on increasing housing shortages and housing policy reform in Germany and Sweden. Potential reforms to increase housing development volumes, especially in the affordable segment, are analysed using theories of institutional change with focus on urban planning, building law and housing policy. READ MORE