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Gentrification around the World, Volume I“We’re Not Moving”: Solidarity and Collective Housing Struggle in a Changing Sweden

Gentrification around the World, Volume I: “We’re Not Moving”: Solidarity and Collective Housing... [Housing has historically been the object of struggle. This chapter addresses the fight against gentrification and renoviction in Sweden. The Swedish housing market has changed markedly in the last thirty years and, in the wake of several deregulations beginning in the 1990s, many tenants today are devoid of rights in the face of major and comprehensive renovations on their housing estates that often entail rent increases of thirty to 80%. This chapter is based on interviews with tenants who fought against rent increases in their neighborhood; all of whom faced the risk of losing their home. It aims at showing how the Swedish housing system has changed and left tenants in a precarious situation. It also shows how the traumatic experience of risking being forced out of your home can turn into a collective struggle to defend everyone’s right to stay put in their own home and neighborhood.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gentrification around the World, Volume I“We’re Not Moving”: Solidarity and Collective Housing Struggle in a Changing Sweden

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Krase, Jerome; DeSena, Judith N.
Thörn, Catharina
Gentrification around the World, Volume I — Apr 24, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-41336-1
Pages
175 –195
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-41337-8_8
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Abstract

[Housing has historically been the object of struggle. This chapter addresses the fight against gentrification and renoviction in Sweden. The Swedish housing market has changed markedly in the last thirty years and, in the wake of several deregulations beginning in the 1990s, many tenants today are devoid of rights in the face of major and comprehensive renovations on their housing estates that often entail rent increases of thirty to 80%. This chapter is based on interviews with tenants who fought against rent increases in their neighborhood; all of whom faced the risk of losing their home. It aims at showing how the Swedish housing system has changed and left tenants in a precarious situation. It also shows how the traumatic experience of risking being forced out of your home can turn into a collective struggle to defend everyone’s right to stay put in their own home and neighborhood.]

Published: Apr 24, 2020

Keywords: Sweden; Housing insecurity; Renoviction; The right to stay put

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