Municipal responsibilities in strategic housing provision planning: to accommodate, support and facilitate

Abstract

Swedish municipalities are obliged to formulate housing provision policies in housing programs, as part of municipal strategic planning. This article explores how municipalities interpret this responsibility. We analyze housing provision programs by drawing from prospective responsibility and policy analysis. Our analysis shows three different prospective responsibilities in the municipality’s production of housing provision responsibility. The results show that municipalities take actions by different means, leading to ambiguities and inequalities in housing provision planning.

Keywords

Strategic planning; housing provision programs; prospective responsibility; policy analysis

Published in

Planning Practice & Research
2023, volume: 38, number: 2, pages: 236-252

SLU Authors

• Berglund-Snodgrass, Lina

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Global goals (SDG)

SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities
SDG16 Peace, justice and strong institutions

UKÄ Subject classification

Public Administration Studies

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2147643

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/119781