Housing and Welfare Research. International Seminar

Presentation of HOUSINGWEL PhD projects (P44, V130) 

• A longitudinal qualitative study of subjective experiences of low-income tenants and homeowners in Oslo 
  Katja Johannessen, PhD-candidate, SAM, Oslo Metropolitan University
• Disadvantaged households in the housing market. Theoretical and empirical analysis inspired by the capability approach.  
  Kim Christian Astrup, Senior Researcher, NIBR, Oslo Metropolitan University
• Socio-spatial structures of housing outcomes within the context of a market-oriented and pro-ownership housing regime.  
  Siri Myrold Osnes, PhD-candidate, NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University
• Moving patterns and class-based distribution of resources in the green city. 
  Marieke van der Star, PhD-candidate, University of Oslo.

Comments: International guests

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

Lunch - 11.00-11.45 (P44, Outside V130) 

• Guro Ødegaard, Director, NOVA Oslo Metropolitan University
• Jardar Sørvoll, Research Professor at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University, and Head of HOUSINGWEL

• 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
• 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
• Neighborhood 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 (P46, PA318)

• Spatial concentration of child poverty  
  Miriam Evensen, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research (co-authors: Pål Schøne and Janis Umblijs).
• Costs of environmental noise pollution: the effects of chronic exposure to aircraft noise on work disability  
  Janis Umblijs, Research Director, NOVA, OsloMet (co-authors: Kristine von Simson and Michal Kozák).  
• Norwegian settlement policy and probability of refugees’ outmigration. Quasi-experimental evidence  
  Liv Osland, Professor, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and NOVA, OsloMet (co-author: Henrik L. Andersen).
• Investor flipping and residential displacement 
  Carolina K. Reid, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning, Berkeley College of Environmental Design University of California, Berkeley.
• Childhood residential mobility and teenage parenthood:  Gender and mobility measurement 
  Kristin Aarland, Senior Researcher, NIBR, OsloMet (co-authors: Andreas Kotsadam, Oddbjørn Raaum and Carolina K. Reid).  

Moderator: Kristin Aarland, Senior Researcher, NIBR, OsloMet.  

Tenants in social housing: public policies, civil society initiatives and tenant participation  
(P46, KK Lounge)

• The resistible rise and assisted death of the tenants movement (and its potential rebirth) 
  Quintin Bradley, Senior Lecturer in Planning and Housing, Leeds Beckett University.
• Alive and Kicking? Resident Democracy in Nordic Social Housing: The Case of Denmark. 
  Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Senior Researcher, Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University.
• Democratization through Temporary Geographies: Rethinking the Spatialities of tenant participation in social housing 
  Thomas Lambourne, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of South Wales.
• Presentations by Erika Gubrium, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University and the Norwegian Tenant’s Union 
   

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

• Spatial opportunity structures and home leaving among young adults in Norway 
  Anna Maria Santiago, Senior Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Innovations, Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
• Urban residence as a driver of wealth differentials: New evidence from Norway 
  George Galster, Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs and Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University, Detroit.

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

Coffee Break  (P44, Outside V130)

EqualHouse (Housing and inequality)

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

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

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, Research Professor at NOVA, OsloMet and head of HOUSINGWEL 

Lunch 11.15-12.00  (P46, KK-Lounge)

Temporary and transitional housing for disadvantaged households

• Youth and residential segregation. Reflections and research perspectives from Denmark 
  David Thore Gravesen, Lektor, Faculty of Education and Social Studies, VIA University Denmark
• The Rights-Based Approach to Homelessness in Scotland 
  Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Professor/Director I-SPHERE, Heriot-Watt University
• A Foyer model “à la Norway”: developing transitional housing for marginalized youth in a municipal network in Northern Norway  
  Trond Bliksvær, Research professor, Nordland Research Institute
• Help to find temporary accommodation - what promotes good practices in the NAV offices? 
  Inger Lise Skog Hansen, Researcher, The Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research

Moderator: Maja Flåto, Senior Researcher, NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University 

Coffee break with snacks and baguettes 14.00-14.15

Residential segregation, neighborhood effects and quality of life

• Start-up Loan and school performance  
  Pål Schøne, Research Professor, Institute for Social Research (co-authors: Miriam Evensen and Janis Umblijs).  
• Deprivation in smaller neighborhoods 
  Gunvor Christensen, Head of analyses, FOB non-profit social housing association, Denmark, former Researcher at VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research
• Supportive Communities: How Neighbor Relationships Vary by Individual Health Status in 29 Countries with Different Public Healthcare Resources 
  Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Assistant professor, Faculty of Behavioral & Social Sciences, University of Groningen
• From rented to owner-occupied housing: opportunity and risk across rural-urban locations 
  Terje Wessel, Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo (co-author: Lena Magnusson Turner, Professor, NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University)  

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

Coffee break with snacks and baguettes 14.00-14.15.  (P44, Outside V130)

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

• The role of housing in the plans, hopes and dreams of young people in Norway: Classed imaginations of adulthood.  
  Ingunn Eriksen. Research professor, NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University & Maja Flåto, Senior Researcher NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University.
• Housing policies for young adults and social (in)justice: What role for local authorities?  
  Alix Gabaude, University of Gothenburg, School of Public Administration, PhD candidate.
• Parental co-residence and the structure of early housing careers in Great Britain.   
  Rory Coulter, Associate Professor in Human Geography, ULC Department of Geography
• Generation Rent: crisis, precarity & the emotions of housing.  
  Kim McKee, Professor of Housing & Social Policy, University of Stirling 
   

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

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