Jennie Gustafsson is a political-economic geographer with an interest in rental housing, municipal governance, and housing inequality. She is currently researching institutional investments in rental housing, the effect of residential property investments in local rental markets beyond larger cities, and the municipal governance of international property investors. She is also interested in tenants’ lived realities, housing struggles, and how housing activism can inform housing research. Also, she works on a research project investigating renovations, privatizations and conversions of rental housing together with Ida Borg (PI) and Eva Andersson at Stockholm University, financed by Vetenskapsrådet.
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The housing crisis has emerged as one of the most pressing societal challenges in recent decades. Global organizations—including the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the IMF—along with national policymakers, housing experts, and researchers, widely acknowledge the severity of this crisis. Rapidly growing regions face acute housing shortages, soaring costs, rising homelessness,…