Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Preface
- Notes on contributors
- one Restructuring large housing estates in European cities: an introduction
- two Large housing estates in Europe: a contemporary overview
- three Place making and large estates: theory and practice
- four Large housing estates in their historical context
- five Privatisation and after
- six Tackling social cohesion in ethnically diverse estates
- seven Social mix and social perspectives in post-war housing estates
- eight On physical determinism and displacement effects
- nine Who leaves Sweden’s large housing estates?
- ten Demolition of large housing estates: an overview
- eleven Building partnerships in Spanish and Italian regeneration processes
- twelve Local participation in Spain and the Netherlands
- thirteen Fighting unemployment on large housing estates: an example from Sweden
- fourteen Feelings of insecurity and young people in housing estates
- fifteen Restructuring large housing estates: does gender matter?
- sixteen Knowledge management and enhanced policy application
- seventeen Conclusions
- Appendix The context of this edited volume
- Index
thirteen - Fighting unemployment on large housing estates: an example from Sweden
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Preface
- Notes on contributors
- one Restructuring large housing estates in European cities: an introduction
- two Large housing estates in Europe: a contemporary overview
- three Place making and large estates: theory and practice
- four Large housing estates in their historical context
- five Privatisation and after
- six Tackling social cohesion in ethnically diverse estates
- seven Social mix and social perspectives in post-war housing estates
- eight On physical determinism and displacement effects
- nine Who leaves Sweden’s large housing estates?
- ten Demolition of large housing estates: an overview
- eleven Building partnerships in Spanish and Italian regeneration processes
- twelve Local participation in Spain and the Netherlands
- thirteen Fighting unemployment on large housing estates: an example from Sweden
- fourteen Feelings of insecurity and young people in housing estates
- fifteen Restructuring large housing estates: does gender matter?
- sixteen Knowledge management and enhanced policy application
- seventeen Conclusions
- Appendix The context of this edited volume
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In one estate in the city we had a lot of rich people, and at the same time we had a lot of poor people in another estate. In one estate the employment rate was high, and in another estate the employment rate was low. The situation in the poor estate could be characterised as the opposite of that in the rich estate. The tension between different estates in the city created destructive forces in the everyday lives of the citizens. This could be seen for example in the elementary school, when children were losing their faith in the future. This problem motivated the municipality to take the initiative and start the Integration Programme in Jönköping with the purpose of bringing together all possible efforts in order to change the situation (Peter Persson, city council member).
This was the explanation given at an Integration Conference in Jönköping on 25 April 2002 by city council member and stakeholder for the RESTATE project, Peter Persson, as to why an Integration Programme in the municipality of Jönköping was initiated. The issue highlighted in the statement has a number of general aspects that apply to the large housing estates that are in focus in the RESTATE project.
The problem of low employment in segregated estates has been treated in different ways in different countries and in different metropolitan areas. The policy tools differ between cases, and different methods have been used at various points in time. The focus in this chapter is primarily on an employment project in Jönköping in Sweden, and the analysis is based on evaluation studies made by the authors at different times (Pettersson, 2003; Vindelman and Öresjö, 2001). We compare the results of the policy initiatives in Jönköping with other forms of policies described in the different country reports in the RESTATE project. In this way the experiences from Jönköping are analysed in a European perspective in order to provide more general observations. (The reason why no other RESTATE case study has been analysed in detail is simply that the Swedish experiments with employment projects focusing directly on large housing estates appear to be more advanced and that no such information in similar detail is available from the other estates.)
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- Restructuring Large Housing Estates in Europe , pp. 257 - 274Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2005