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.

住房和城市研究奖学金经常假设瑞典当前住房不满的根源是在1990年代初期银行业危机之后的新自由主义“系统转换”中找到的。本文提供了不同的解释，指出并阐述了自1970年代以来瑞典住房生产，分配和金融体系中不可克服的矛盾如何导致其备受赞誉的住房模式的显着恶化。推进历史制度主义框架，本文力求在历史上梳理与当代新自由主义时代通常相关的过程和结果，并将其与行为者及其随时间的社会关系更具体地定位。利用与住房融资，补贴，房价和建筑物产出有关的一系列数据，作为混合方法分析的一部分，本文探讨了由国家和部门之间的分歧介导的宏观经济因素如何影响城市和区域发展。因此，本文与住房和城市研究奖学金的概念和方法论相关性超出了瑞典。