The standard view is that rent regulation leads to reduced maintenance as the landlord will be able to find tenants at the regulated rent even if the level of maintenance is low. In this article it is shown that the rent regulation system in Sweden interacts with a contract structure where the...

“Realising the right to the city – a a human right based framework for regeneration of areas of urban disadvantage.” In the second part of the articles three current Swedish cases are analyzed from a normative perspective to illustrate how a rights based approach can be implemented in a...