Anders Lund Hansen

Boligpolitikken er en storpolitisk ideologisk kampplads : Boligen ses som et strategisk værktøj og et investeringsobjekt frem for en ramme for menneskers livsverden.

Housing policy is major political and ideological battlefields : Housing is conceived as a strategic tool and an investment object rather than an essential framework for human lifeworlds

Summary, in English

Housing politics is a social geographical and ideological battlefield; where housing is seen as a strategic tool and an investment object rather than an essential framework for human lifeworlds. Housing and home is the place where we meet our basic ecological and social needs. A responsible housing politics should therefore not conceive – and instrumentally use – housing as an exclusion mechanism and a commodity in the traditional sense; instead housing and home should be preserved as a foundation for social relations and human well being.

• Author: Anders Lund Hansen
• Department/s: Department of Human Geography
• Publishing year: 2017-11-16
• Language: Danish
• Publication/Series: Jyllandsposten
• Volume: 2017
• Issue: 11
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• Document type: Newspaper article
• Publisher: JP/Politikens Hus
• Topic: Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
• Keywords: Housing and urban politics; Political ecology
• Status: Published
• Project: 7th Framework Program, Financialisation, economy, society and sustainable development; CRitical Urban Sustainability Hub (FORMAS Strong Research Environment); Collaborative Housing in a Pandemic Era: cross-country inter- and transdisciplinary evaluation, innovative approaches, human rights-based policy recommendations and capacity building