Households in action—On access to housing in a regulated private rental market

Abstract

This article evaluates the relative contribution of material and social variables for determining different ways of getting access to dwellings in a regulated private rental housing market with excess housing demand—the inner‐city of Stockholm. Data from a survey conducted by the National Swedish Institute for Building Research in 1988 containing' a sample of 455 households in inner‐city rental housing is examined with the help of ANOTA (analysis of tables) technique of statistical analysis. Obtaining a flat in the privately owned inner‐city rental stock in Stockholm is greatly facilitated by having resided a long time in the market‐area, by having previous possession of a contract and by the existence of a social network that affords access to the local housing market.