Housing and Welfare Research. International Seminar

Presentation of HOUSINGWEL PhD projects

• Katja Johannessen: “A longitudinal qualitative study of subjective experiences of low-income tenants and homeowners in Oslo”
• Kim Christian Astrup: “Disadvantaged households in the housing market. Theoretical and empirical analysis inspired by the capability approach”
• Siri Myrold Osnes: “Housing outcomes for disadvantaged groups within the context of a market oriented and pro-ownership housing regime”
• Marieke van der Star: «Moving patterns and class-based distribution of resources in the green city”

Comments: International guests

Moderator: Janis Umblijs, Research Director, NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University

Lunch - 11.00-11.45

Guro Ødegaard, Director, NOVA Oslo Metropolitan University

Jardar Sørvoll, Research Professor at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University, and Head of HOUSINGWEL

Low-income homeownership in Norway and the United States: What can we learn from each other?

Carolina Reid, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning, Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Moderator: Kristin Aarland, Senior Researcher, NIBR, Oslo Metropolitan University

Coffee break 13.00-13.15

Social and public rented housing in the Nordic countries: Strengths and weaknesses of very different housing models

• Needs-tested and market-based social rented housing. The extreme case of Norway?
  Jardar Sørvoll, Research Professor at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University & head of HOUSINGWEL
• Objectives and Barriers for Promoting Social Housing Policy in Urban Finland
  Jarkko Rasinkangas, Lecturer in social work in the Department of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Turku, Finland
• Two contradictions and the shape of public housing to come. A review of the current state of the municipal public housing sector in Sweden
  Martin Grander, Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University
• Taking the Social out of Social Housing? Recent Developments, Current Tendencies, and Future Challenges to the Danish Social Housing Model
  Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Senior Researcher, Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University
• Neighbourhood satisfaction among municipal tenants in the Helsinki metropolitan area
  Katriina Rosengren, Department of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Turku, Finland & Doctoral candidate at the School of Arts, Design, and Architecture at Aalto University

Moderator: Ingar Brattbakk, Senior Researcher, AFI, Oslo Metropolitan University

Coffee break 15.15-15.30

Quantitative research on housing and welfare

• Miriam Evensen (Institutt for Samfunnsforskning/Institute for Social Research): Spatial concentration of child poverty (coauthors: Pål Schøne and Janis Umblijs)
• Janis Umblijs (NOVA, OsloMet): Costs of environmental noise pollution: the effects of chronic exposure to aircraft noise on work disability (coauthors: Kristine von Simson and Michal Kozák) 
• Liv Osland (Høgskulen på Vestlandet/Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and NOVA, Oslomet: Norwegian settlement policy and probability of refugees’ outmigration. Quasi-experimental evidence.  (coauthor: Henrik L. Andersen)
• Carolina K. Reid (University of California, Berkeley): Investor flipping and residential displacement
• Kristin Aarland (NIBR, OsloMet): Ethnic discrimination in mortgage origination: evidence from the public starter mortgage program in Norway (coauthors: Andreas Kotsadam, Oddbjørn Raaum and Carolina K. Reid)
   

Organized by Kristin Aarland, Senior researcher, Oslo Metropolitan University.

Tenants in social housing: public policies, civil society initiatives and tenant participation

• Quintin Bradley, Leeds Beckett University: “The resistible rise and assisted death of the tenants movement (and its potential rebirth).”
• Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Aalborg University: “Alive and Kicking? Resident Democracy in Nordic Social Housing: The Case of Denmark”
• Thomas Lambourne, University of South Wales: “Democratisation through Temporary Geographies: rethinking the spatialities of tenant participation in social housing” 
• Presentations by Erika Gubrium (OsloMet) and the Norwegian Tenant’s Union
   

Organized by Håvard Aaslund, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, Oslo Metropolitan University.

• Anna Maria Santiago, Senior Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Innovations, Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
• George Galster, Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs and Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University, Detroit

Titles to be added.

Moderator: Kristin Aarland, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Coffee Break

Temporary and transitional housing for disadvantaged households

• David Thore Gravesen, Faculty of Education and Social Studies, VIA University Denmark
• Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Professor/Director I-SPHERE, Heriot Watt University
• Trond Bliksvær, Research professor, Nordland Research Institute
• Inger Lise Skog Hansen, Researcher, Fafo- Research on labour market, education, welfare and migration

Titles to be added.

Organized by Maja Flåto, Senior Researcher, NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University.

Moderator: Jardar Sørvoll, Oslo Metropolitan University

Coffee break with snacks and baguettes 14.00-14.15

Residential segregation, neighborhood effects and quality of life

• Pål Schøne (Institutt for Samfunnsforskning/Institute for Social Research): Start-up Loan and school performance. (coauthors: Miriam Evensen and Janis Umblijs)
• Gunvor Christensen (Head of analyses, FOB non-profit social housing association, Denmark, former Researcher at VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research): Deprivation in smaller neighbourhoods.
• Jaap Nieuwenhuis (Assistant professor, Faculty of Behavioural & Social Sciences, University of Groningen, NL): Supportive Communities: How Neighbor Relationships Vary by Individual Health Status in 29 Countries with Different Public Healthcare Resources.

Organized by Ingar Brattbakk, Senior Researcher, AFI Oslo Metropolitan University.

Coffee break with snacks and baguettes 14.00-14.15.

EqualHouse (Housing and inequality)

Erwin Gielens, Researcher, Tilburg University, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences & Department of Sociology

Moderator: Jardar Sørvoll, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Understanding generational housing inequalities beyond tenure, class and context

Amber Howard, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam & The Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

Moderator: Jardar Sørvoll, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Lunch 11.15-12.00

Young adults in the housing market: First-time buyers and long-term tenants

• Maja Flåto, Senior Researcher NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University
• Alix Gabaude, University of Gothenburg, School of Public Administration, PhD candidate, working on a project focusing on housing policy and young adults in France and Sweden
  Rory Coulter, Associate Professor in Human Geography, ULC Department of Geography 
• Kim McKee, Professor of Housing & Social Policy, University of Stirling 

Titles to be added.

Moderator: Janis Umblijs, Oslo Metropolitan University

Jardar Sørvoll, Research Professor at NOVA, OsloMet and head of HOUSINGWEL