Jennie Gustafsson

Jennie Gustafsson

@jiegson.bsky.social

Bostadsforskare. Human geographer researching on rental housing, regulation and financialization. Book review ed @housingtheory.bsky.social. Dept. of Urban studies & @iurmalmo.bsky.social, MAU. https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=x-t1hugAAAAJ&hl=sv

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Cian O’Callaghan
@ciantocallaghan.bsky.social

This is awful. Solidarity with UK colleagues against this cruel and stupid gutting of university education and disciplinary knowledge

Angela Last@mutablematter.bsky.social

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

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Housing, Theory and Society
@housingtheory.bsky.social

See all six commentaries on @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin A Woods focus article ”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comThe Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier CapitalismOver the past half century, housing systems have been reconfigured through processes variously labelled financialization, assetization and rentierization. Unevenly advanced by successive rounds of ...
Jennie Gustafsson
@jiegson.bsky.social

Det kanske bara är jag men visst varvas nyheterna med ena dagen lättsmälta/populistiska/till synes ointressanta nyheter som mobilförbud i grundskolan och minskad kommunalskatt och andra dagen repressiva förslag om att sänka straffåldern till 13. Valår coming up

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Martin Gelin
@martingelin.bsky.social

My latest for The Guardian: A government that claims to take concerns over crime and national security seriously, while ignoring violent neo-nazi groups, will struggle with its credibility. Sweden has a long tradition of refusing to talk about racism. Racism could still decide the next election:

theguardian.comA rightwing minister told Sweden to get tough on crime – until his own son was caught in a Nazi scandal | Martin GelinIn our current political climate, why is migration minister Johan Forssell surprised that a teenage boy might be drawn to extremism? asks journalist Martin Gelin

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Tim White
@timwhite100.bsky.social

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comAcross Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim WhiteWe’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

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Johan Pries
@johanpries.bsky.social

Assistant professorship in Human ecology at the dept of Human Geography at Lund Uni just out. Please circulate to anyone working with nature-human relationships who might would want to work out of Lund. Personally hoping people interested in planning issues apply! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

lu.varbi.comSenior Lecturer in Human EcologySpecific subject description The Human Ecology Division applies an inter-disciplinary definition of its research field. Research and education at the division deals with human-environmental relations
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Jennie Gustafsson
@jiegson.bsky.social

These actors might also be vulnerable to inflation and increasing interest rates, especially considering the expected returns to their shareholders, which in turn can incentivize rent increases to cover rising costs.

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@jiegson.bsky.social

The institutional investors’ ownership of rental housing raises several questions regarding how local governments can secure their housing provision, especially considering how residential property actors might use rent-increasing investment strategies.

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@jiegson.bsky.social

We discuss the different experiences of rental housing investments considering the extensive privatizations of public housing in Sweden and in a context of an historically corporate private rental sector.

Jennie Gustafsson
@jiegson.bsky.social

We find that institutional investors (e.g. pension/insurance/sovereign wealth funds being shareholders of residential property companies, such as Heimstaden and Victoriahem) own more than 24% of the private rental housing stock in Sweden. In France, the number is significantly less—not more than 5%.

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Lund Academics for Palestine
@luacademicsfp.bsky.social

Did you miss this the first time around? Call for papers - Are you or do you know a student who has written (or is writing) an academic work on Palestine? Submit an abstract of your text via the Tally form (post 2) or contact us by email (post 4). Deadline 4 July! All the best, The anthology team

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Peter Hellman
@hrhellman.bsky.social

Kriminologen säger också att Sverige går helt fel väg - fängelser är ”a terrible waste of government money”. Lyssna!

Peter Hellman@hrhellman.bsky.social

Intressant om hur man förebygger brottslighet bland unga - genom att inte gripa dem och genom att låta föräldrar, skola och samhälle ta hand om dem. Och om hur man måste se att barn är barn som behöver hjälp att bli goda samhällsmedborgare. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/ar-h...

sverigesradio.seÄr hårdare straff rätt väg att gå? - P1 MorgonI förra veckan presenterades regeringens stora straffrättsreform som väntas leda till 16 000 fler utdömda fängelseår och kosta 16 miljarder kronor ...

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Institute for Urban Research (IUR)
@iurmalmo.bsky.social

Updated with a new link to our freshly redesigned website (check it out!): The call is open! ✏️Would you like to submit to a special issue on "Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure" for our e-journal Urban Matters? Read more here + send an abstract by June 15: www.iuresearch.se/call-for-abs...

iuresearch.seCall for Abstracts! Urban Matters Special Issue: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure - Institute for Urban ResearchAbstract submissions are open for a special issue of Urban Matters journal! Please see below for information and instructions. Title: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure  Abstract: 250 words  Ar...
Jennie Gustafsson
@jiegson.bsky.social

Happy to have been part of this collective and collaborative work initiated by Chiara Valli with Laleh Foroughanfar, Adriana de la Peña, Lorena Melgaço and Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou. It was a great experience thinking about Eurovision, protests and authoritarian urbanism.

cogitatiopress.comEurovision and the City: “United by Music” Meets “Malmö against Genocide” | Commentary | Urban PlanningMyrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Adriana de La Peña, Laleh Foroughanfar, Jennie Gustafsson, Lorena Melgaço, Chiara Valli

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Institute for Urban Research (IUR)
@iurmalmo.bsky.social

More details announced! Our panel discussion, moderated by associate professor Paula Mulinari, will include Aina Gagliardo (Röda Korsets Malmökrets), Ana Betancour (IUR), Britt Jürgensen (Backa Kåken), Halimo Nuur (Rosengårds Folkets Hus), and Stefana Hoti (Malmö stad) as participants. Welcome!

Institute for Urban Research (IUR)@iurmalmo.bsky.social

All are welcome to IUR's public launch at Form/Design Center on Friday May 23rd from 16:00 - 18:00! Join us for a presentation of the research center, a panel discussion (in Swedish) on urban justice, and open workshops. Please register here: forms.office.com/e/WpCQaYCt19

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Ståle Holgersen
@holgersen.bsky.social

Rekommenderas: Universitetslektor i kulturgeografi vid Örebro universitet. Sök om du kan – trevliga kollegor ingår i jobbet! *** Permanent position as Senior Lecturer at Örebro University. My old job – highly recommended!

oru.seUniversitetslektor i kulturgeografi - Örebro universitetÖrebro universitet skapar framtiden genom internationellt konkurrenskraftig forskning och erbjuder professionsinriktade utbildningar som tillhör landets bäst
Jennie Gustafsson
@jiegson.bsky.social

@mickbyrne.bsky.social about renovations, highlighting how these diminish affordable housing. Me and @idaborg.bsky.social has also found that tenants with lower socioeconomic status tend to move less than socioeconomically stronger households, which can be interpreted as a form of 'lock in' effect.

mickbyrne.bsky.social@mickbyrne.bsky.social

Buy, renovate, increase rents has been one of the main models of PRS financialization. In today's post I summarise the literature on this in countries like Sweden, Canada and Denmark @jiegson.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/prs-financ...

theweekinhousing.substack.comPRS Financialization III: RenovictionsThis is the third in my series on PRS financialization.
Jennie Gustafsson
@jiegson.bsky.social

Not to say that they don't experience pressures. We have a paper on this with Eva Andersson hopefully coming out this year. But @acerich.bsky.social @marcusmohall.bsky.social & Irene Molina find similar trends on a neighborhood level: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comCAPTURING DISPLACEMENT: A Dialectical Mixed‐Methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction—A Case from SwedenIn this article, we seek to contribute to the understanding and measurement of displacement through a dialectical mixed-methods study grounded in a dialogue between quantitative and qualitative appro...

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Defne Kadioglu
@defnekadioglu.bsky.social

Join us next Tuesday!!

Institute for Urban Research (IUR)@iurmalmo.bsky.social

Next up: on Tuesday April 8th, come join us at 12.00 for a Brown Bag Seminar with Paul Rabé (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University)! More info and location here: www.iuresearch.se/event/south-...

iuresearch.se‘South-South-North’ Knowledge Diplomacy as a Frame to guide Urban Research and Networks? - Institute for Urban ResearchBrown Bag Seminar Paul Rabé – “‘South-South-North’ Knowledge Diplomacy as a Frame to guide Urban Research and Networks?” In-person only: NI:C0826 Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the opportuniti...