Kreppa, hugmyndafræði og félagslegt húsnæði
The paper considers the development of social housing in Iceland, from its beginnings with the construction of the first workers' dwellings in the 1930s. Housing in Iceland is compared with that of the neighboring countries and an overview of recent sociological housing research is presented. A...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:36ee943b760443f39828dae062e66149 2023-05-15T16:45:44+02:00 Kreppa, hugmyndafræði og félagslegt húsnæði Jón Rúnar Sveinsson 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/36ee943b760443f39828dae062e66149 IS ice Icelandic Sociological Association http://www.thjodfelagid.is/index.php/Th/article/view/12/6 https://doaj.org/toc/1670-875X https://doaj.org/toc/1670-8768 1670-875X 1670-8768 https://doaj.org/article/36ee943b760443f39828dae062e66149 Íslenska þjóðfélagið: The Icelandic Society, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 49-68 (2010) social housing workers' dwellings labour movement politics neo-liberalism Iceland Social sciences (General) H1-99 article 2010 ftdoajarticles 2023-01-08T01:24:14Z The paper considers the development of social housing in Iceland, from its beginnings with the construction of the first workers' dwellings in the 1930s. Housing in Iceland is compared with that of the neighboring countries and an overview of recent sociological housing research is presented. Also, the roles of the labour movement and the Icelandic political parties in the formation of housing policy are described. The paper comes to the main conclusion that social housing in Iceland developed quite slowly until the 1960s, both in comparison with the overall development of domestic housing construction and with the amount of social housing construction in other countries. Uniquely, Icelandic social housing has mainly been owner-occupied, albeit with restricted rights for the owners to sell such flats freely on the housing market. Initially, the labour movement and the workers' parties were the main proponents of social housing, but gradually the initiative in Icelandic social housing construction was transferred to the state and to the municipal authorities. By the turn of the new millennium, the growing strength of neo-liberal ideological hegemony led to the privatization of the entire Icelandic owner-occupied social housing stock. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Kreppa ENVELOPE(-16.203,-16.203,65.179,65.179) |
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The paper considers the development of social housing in Iceland, from its beginnings with the construction of the first workers' dwellings in the 1930s. Housing in Iceland is compared with that of the neighboring countries and an overview of recent sociological housing research is presented. Also, the roles of the labour movement and the Icelandic political parties in the formation of housing policy are described. The paper comes to the main conclusion that social housing in Iceland developed quite slowly until the 1960s, both in comparison with the overall development of domestic housing construction and with the amount of social housing construction in other countries. Uniquely, Icelandic social housing has mainly been owner-occupied, albeit with restricted rights for the owners to sell such flats freely on the housing market. Initially, the labour movement and the workers' parties were the main proponents of social housing, but gradually the initiative in Icelandic social housing construction was transferred to the state and to the municipal authorities. By the turn of the new millennium, the growing strength of neo-liberal ideological hegemony led to the privatization of the entire Icelandic owner-occupied social housing stock. |
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Kreppa, hugmyndafræði og félagslegt húsnæði |
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Kreppa, hugmyndafræði og félagslegt húsnæði |
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Kreppa, hugmyndafræði og félagslegt húsnæði |
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