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'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities''' | |||
As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4]. | |||
Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going trough the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6] | |||
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Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
| Place name | Unknown and secret temporary places | |
| Location | Stockholm | |
| Country | Sweden | |
| Author(s) | Emil Buzzi | |
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Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar?
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the greater Stockholm area are thus planning temporary housing units to be constructed around the city. This has resulted in protests from local residents. This complex issue involves both concerns about the refugees moving in and the built environment. The challenges thus involved both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. The municipalities and their planners thus must both navigate purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts. These different issues are in realty sometimes hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex and important landscape democracy challenge.
Representation of your observations
A multidimensional democracy challenge
Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].
Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going trough the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]
case representation
Reflection
What are the major challenges for changing the situation?
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What could be a starting point for democractically-based change?
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