New article on Housing policy with different solutions

A new article by Bo Bengtsson, IBF and Erling Annaniassen, NOVA, Norway in the journal PLAN

2005 Housing policy with different solutions, No 2, p. 8-11

Abstract

Sweden and Norway have had both similar and different histories of housing policy. Internationally speaking, both countries have a high percentage of cooperatively owned homes. During the post-war period in Norway, both cooperative apartments and the construction of small private houses were subsidized by the government. In Sweden, on the other hand, priority was given to municipally owned rental buildings where means tests would not be required. In recent years, the governments' housing policies in both countries have more or less been phased out and market-adjusted. In Sweden, however, deregulation hasn't hit residents as much since utility value rent levels for private properties are still based on the levels in the public housing sector.