scholarly journals Power, production and disorder: The decline of Sweden’s housing industrial complex and the origins of the present housing discontents

2021 ◽  
pp. 096977642110095
Author(s):  
Timothy Blackwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Housing Finance ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Housing Production ◽  
Macroeconomic Factors ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Urban And Regional Development

It is often assumed in housing and urban studies scholarship that the roots of Sweden’s present housing discontents are to be found in a neoliberal ‘system switch’ following the early-1990s banking crisis. This paper offers a different account, identifying and expounding how insuperable contradictions in Sweden’s complex of housing production, distribution and finance, from the 1970s onward, led to a marked deterioration in its much-lauded housing model. Advancing a historical institutionalist framework, the paper seeks to historically couch the processes and outcomes commonly associated with the contemporary neoliberal era and position them more concretely in relation to actors and their social relations through time. Using a range of data pertaining to housing finance, subsidies, house prices and building output, as part of a mixed-methods analysis, the paper explores how macroeconomic factors, mediated by interactions between the state and sectoral cleavages, influence urban and regional development aspects. The paper’s conceptual and methodological relevance to housing and urban studies scholarship thus extends beyond Sweden.

Computer model of an RBMK operator for controlling the power production distribution

Atomic Energy ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 974-976 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. V. Polyakov ◽  
V. V. Postnikov ◽  
A. N. Sviridenkov
Keyword(s):  
Computer Model ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Production Distribution

scholarly journals Novas formas associativas na produção recente de moradia social no Brasil

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Moreno de Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Housing Production ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
And Performance

O presente artigo aborda aspectos relacionados à produção habitacional da modalidade “Entidades” do programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida, a partir de observações de campo. Pretende-se elaborar uma chave de leitura que destaque, no contexto de atendimento do programa federal mencionado, as entidades organizadoras e os diferentes graus de vinculação e relação que estabelecem com os movimentos de luta por moradias nacionais, a sociedade e o próprio Estado. Tais questões vêm se construindo e nos mostram certa urgência de análise e pesquisas mais aprofundadas, no sentido de avançar na discussão acerca da produção habitacional por meio da autogestão no Brasil, visto que, ainda que inexpressivo do ponto de vista quantitativo e em comparação com a produção mais massiva empreendida pelo mercado, ela nos revela uma série de transformações que vem redefinindo as relações sociais e a produção do espaço urbano contemporâneo. Palavras-chave: habitação de interesse social; Minha Casa, Minha Vida; entidades; movimentos sociais; política habitacional. Abstract: In response to the global economic crisis of 2009, the brazilian government launched the Minha Casa, Minha Vida – MCMV program, with the purpose of producing one million houses in the country. In its second phase, currently the program aims to produce another two million housing in the country. This production occurs by means partnership among actors at the various political, commercial, social and voluntary levels. In this context, this article aims to develop a new key for reading the entities responsible for organising the construction of the project contracted and the different degrees of attachment and relationship they establish with the national fight for housing movements, the society and the state itself, in the composition of demand and performance location. Such questions show some urgency in the analysis and further research for advancing in discussion about housing production through self-management in Brazil, it reveals a series of transformations that has been redefining social relations and production of contemporary urban space. Keywords: social interest housing; “Minha Casa, Minha Vida”; entities; social movements; housing policy.

Gas Turbines: A Modern Approach to Industrial Power Plant Expansions

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Elston ◽  
B. A. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Heat Recovery ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Heat Recovery Boiler ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Power Equipment ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Plant Power

A major industrial complex with in-plant power generation required a large incremental expansion of steam and power production. Alternative approaches to achieve this expansion are reviewed and the gas turbine-heat recovery boiler cycle selected is described. The primary objective of this paper is to demonstrate the excellent results that can be achieved through integration of gas turbines with conventional industrial power equipment.

scholarly journals MANAGEMENT OF PROFILE FACTORS OF MODERNIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES

2017 ◽  
pp. 4-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Abelian ◽  
N. E. Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Econometric Methods ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Technological Modernization ◽  
Relevant Factors

In the article, using econometric methods to analyze various aspects of identification of relevant factors of modernization of industrial enterprises, determined the most effective relations between them, their ranking is carried out. The paper provides an understanding of the role and place of the accelerated technological modernization of the industry as one of the imperatives of the state socio-economic strategy that currently updates the problem identification forms, mechanisms, strategies to build domestic industrial capacity. Along with this, SMEs require clear mechanisms of organizational-economic providing of the implementation of comprehensive modernization, including taking into account the specifics of the industrial complex and the accumulated socio-economic potential of the region. This predetermines the importance of the formulation of problems of organizational-economic providing of processes of technological modernization of the industry at the regional level. Discusses the changes in the process of modernization: the emergence of the latest procedures and devices of resolving social problems on the basis of improvement of all system of public relations and modification of way of life the emergence of innovative technologies; development of commodity-money relations, the acquisition of the highest level of professional expertise of managers and employees; the modification of social relations. The generalized algorithm effective management of the enterprise in terms of innovation, the tools identify the time lags of development of the enterprise. It is concluded that the identification of the relevant factors provides the possibility of optimizing the process of active management of innovative activity taking into account the stage of development of the enterprise.

Forms of Housing Production—The Birth of a New Concept or the Creation of a Cul-De-Sac?

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ball
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Housing Production ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Marxist Tradition

In a recent article in Environment and Planning A, Cardoso and Short discussed a concept called ‘forms of housing production’. In this paper, 1 comment on the arguments they associated with the concept. I suggest that, despite their attempts to situate themselves within the Marxist tradition, Cardoso and Short have neglected and misinterpreted much of the Marxist work on housing of the past decade. Furthermore, their particular interpretation of the social relations of housing provision contains theoretical errors which make it of little practical use.

scholarly journals House Prices and Marital Stability

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 615-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Farnham ◽  
Lucie Schmidt ◽  
Purvi Sevak
Keyword(s):  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
House Prices ◽  
House Price ◽  
Marital Stability ◽  
Housing Finance ◽  
Transactions Costs ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Federal Housing ◽  
Using Data

We investigate the effect of house price changes on divorce using data for 1991–2010 from the Current Population Survey and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Our findings suggest that changing house prices significantly affect the share of a cohort that is divorced, and that these effects are asymmetric with respect to housing gains versus losses. In addition, we find differential effects for groups that are more likely to be homeowners versus renters. Some of this evidence is consistent with homeowners being locked into their homes—and hence marriages—by increased transactions costs in down markets.

A Macroeconomic Model of Price Swings in the Housing Market

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (6) ◽  
pp. 2036-2072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Garriga ◽  
Rodolfo Manuelli ◽  
Adrian Peralta-Alva
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Housing Finance ◽  
Macroeconomic Model ◽  
Quantitative Version ◽  
House Values ◽  
Mortgage Rates ◽  
Positive Effect

This paper shows that a macro model with segmented financial markets can generate sizable movements in housing prices in response to changes in credit conditions. We establish theoretically that reductions in mortgage rates always have a positive effect on prices, whereas the relaxation of loan-to-value constraints has ambiguous effects. A quantitative version of the model under perfect foresight accounts for about one-half of the observed price increase in the United States in the 2000s. When we include shocks to expectations about housing finance conditions, the model’s ability to match house values improves significantly. The framework reconciles the observed disconnect between house prices and rents since, in general equilibrium, financial shocks can decrease rents and increase prices. (JEL E44, G21, R31)

Housing Finance in Canada: Looking Back to Move Forward

2014 ◽  
Vol 230 ◽  
pp. R45-R57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence L. Schembri
Keyword(s):  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Housing Finance ◽  
Private Label ◽  
Macroprudential Policy ◽  
Mortgage Insurance ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Right ◽  
Looking Back

The Canadian system of housing finance proved to be resilient and efficient during the global financial crisis and its aftermath. The system's effectiveness is the result of a rigorous prudential regulatory and supervisory regime coupled with targeted government guarantees of mortgage insurance and securitisation products. In the post-crisis period, household debt levels and house prices have risen, owing, in part, to accommodative monetary conditions necessary to support the economic recovery. These vulnerabilities were mitigated by tightening macroprudential policy, specifically mortgage insurance rules, and strengthening mortgage-underwriting standards. Looking ahead, the housing finance framework needs to be adjusted and strengthened by rebalancing the risk exposures away from the government towards the private sector participants in the housing finance market. Although some measures have already been taken for this purpose, more adjustments may be needed to create the right incentives and achieve a sustainable rebalancing in risk exposures. Measures should also be considered to promote a liquid private-label mortgage securitisation market in Canada.

Owner-Occupied Housing in Europe: Postwar Developments and Current Dilemmas

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 605-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Martens
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
House Prices ◽  
House Price ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Housing Production ◽  
Price Inflation ◽  
Market Instability ◽  
Long Term Trend

Owner-occupation has become a major tenure form in Western Europe. Yet, relatively little is known about the way owner-occupation is provided, since most studies tend to concentrate only on the effects of different forms of state support for the tenure. This survey examines owner-occupied housing markets in five European countries, Britain, France, West Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Their housing markets vary substantially, but differences are especially marked between Britain and the rest of Europe. Differences in owner-occupied housing markets between these countries arise in the timing of the expansion of owner-occupation; in the relation between the building industry and dominant forms of housing promotion; in the roles played by the market for secondhand housing and in the importance of mortgage finance. One common characteristic of all these countries, however, has been the appearance of house-price inflation during the 1970s. The rising long-term trend of house prices has been punctuated by periodic booms and slumps. Market instability has helped to cause the major crises of housing production that exist in all countries. The survey concludes by indicating the dilemmas under the current structures of provision for state policies aimed at expanding owner-occupation.

Macro-economic index effect on house prices in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheyu Li ◽  
Muhammad Najib Razali ◽  
Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni ◽  
Yasmin Mohd. Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Macroeconomic Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Vector Auto Regression ◽  
Auto Regression ◽  
Index Effect

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to estimate different data models on house prices using statistical models and the variables which are controlled by real estate policy.Design/methodology/approachThis study used several statistical techniques, such as Vector auto-regression (VAR), Johansen co-integration and variance decomposition, which aim to assess the significant effect of macroeconomic factors on Chinese house prices.FindingsThe results show that land supply and other variables have negative effects on house prices. The results also indicate that financial mortgages for real estate have positive effects on house prices and the area of vacant houses as well as the area of housing sold.Research limitations/implicationsThis study only covers three cities in China because of limitations of data for other cities.Originality/valueThis study proposes policy suggestions according to the empirical results obtained.

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