Renovations as an investment strategy: circumscribing the right to housing in Sweden

There is an emergent field of writings on financialized landlords’ undertaking apartment renovations as investment strategy and its effect housing inequalities. Seldom do these studies contextualize tendencies within countries’ specific policy traditions. Therefore, through a qualitative case study in neighbourhood Sweden, this paper aims to uncover how private landlords undertake tenants and, turn, the hybrid character universal system. It finds that enable extract value from built environment while experience rising rents, lack information, poor property maintenance, apprehension. Hence, I argue represent serves undermine traditional social right context. The thus furthers knowledge situatedness financialization entails their translation transformation systems.