How can the preconditions for socially sustainable collaborative housing be improved?

Collaborative Housing is an umbrella term for forms of housing that are based on collectivity and self-organization.

In recent years, these types of initiatives have once again been highlighted as an opportunity to create sustainable housing and residential areas, as well as reduce housing costs.

Due to the complexity and legal uncertainty that arises in connection with the start-up of collaborative housing communities, however, in Sweden today the form is primarily an alternative for the middle class, ie people who generally already have access to the housing market.

As a result of this, and unlike several other countries, in Sweden collaborative housing is often not considered a potential partial solution to the housing market problems.

The purpose of this proposed project is to create a research overview of legal, economic and social conditions of importance for the possibility of developing the concept into a socially inclusive and economically viable form of housing that is accessible to a larger circuit of citizens.

The research overview will include a systematic mapping and analysis of the existing international literature on collaborative housing.

The study will focus on three themes: 1) potential initiators, 2) key partners and 3) legal institutional settings and thus relate to the current problems in Sweden in developing this form of housing.