Adequate Housing for Järfälla

Adequate Housing for Järfälla By Julia Baczyk, Alvina Rwaichi Minja, Charbel Toma, Josefina Vives Martens and Michiel Vandenbussche

Most institutions and citizens in Sweden agree that there is a housing shortage. But what defines a housing shortage, and who experiences it?

Housing affordability is a crucial issue and its impact extends beyond individual households' implications to the wider economy and environment (Mulliner and Maliene, 2011). Expensive housing significantly constraints household budgets, limiting not only expenditure on essential items such as food, services and transportation to work but also reducing the savings capacity for emergencies, further education and retirement (Anacker, 2019). In essence, the housing shortage is not merely quantitative but also qualitative, affecting disposable income and market accessibility.

This project will focus on the more comprehensive term “adequate housing” (Mulliner and Maliene, 2011). Since many issues related to housing are structural or above the municipalities’ jurisdiction, and since Järfälla does not have a definition of affordable or adequate housing (‘Questions to civil servants about housing policies in Järfälla’, 2023), the focus of this report will be to provide a framework of Adequate Housing for the municipality. The framework will be shaped so it can be used within the municipal jurisdiction, as a definition of Adequate Housing to base strategies on. It is also meant to be used as a framework to assess adequacy of housing in Planning projects and existing areas, or as a guide for creating and maintaining adequate housing.

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