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Daisy Charlesworth

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Housing cooperatives and the contradictions of Finnish land and housing policies

Författare

  • Daisy Charlesworth
  • Mika Hyötyläinen

Summary, in English

This article explores some of the key institutional challenges hindering the development of a new ‘social’ housing cooperative model in Finland. In response to rising housing unaffordability and insecurity in the private housing sector, and a retrenching social housing sector, Finland is experiencing a resurgence of practical and political interest in housing cooperatives. Based on a document study and interviews with key stakeholders, this paper investigates three Finnish housing cooperatives, all of which are part of a broader state-subsidised pilot study. Despite different operational dynamics across projects, in this paper we identify three overarching ambiguities in Finnish land and housing policy which are hindering their development. Firstly, despite support from public authorities, cooperatives are difficult to categorise within existing social housing frameworks. Secondly, due to temporally-restricted regulatory instruments, authorities are also sceptical of their long-term affordability. Tying these together, we suggest, is also a further third factor. Namely that, due to its entrepreneurial real estate policy, the City of Helsinki refuses to lease land under market rent to housing cooperatives. Contributing to international scholarship on the public-cooperative nexus, this article investigates the impacts these institutional ambiguities and contradictions can have on contemporary housing cooperative developments.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

Publiceringsår

2023-07-31

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Housing Policy

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Nyckelord

  • Housing cooperative
  • social policy
  • land policy
  • housing policy
  • Finland

Status

Epub

Projekt

  • The ‘shape-shifting’ container of housing cooperativism: An exploration of the changing relationship between housing cooperativism, state, and market in Finland

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1949-1247