Graduate level:

• Segregation Neighborhood Effects and Housing Planning
• Advanced Methods in Human Geography and Urban and Regional Planning 15 HECs
• Guest lecturer at The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) Master´s Programme in Computational Social Science course:  Inequality and Segregation: Theory and Measurement 7,5 HECs (lecture and seminar three years in a row).
• Supervisor of Master Thesises

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Andersson, E.K., Borg, I. Trajectories of Latent Vulnerability and Distress: Identifying Social and Spatial Fringes of the Swedish Population. Soc Indic Res 169, 993–1015 (2023). https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1007/s11205-023-03173-y

Kenneth Nelson, Ida Borg, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Susanne Alm, The political determinants of housing benefits, European Sociological Review, 2022; jcac042, https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1093/esr/jcac042

Borg, I., Kawalerowicz, J., & Andersson, E. K. (2022). Socio-spatial stratification of housing tenure trajectories in Sweden – A longitudinal cohort study. Advances in Life Course Research, 52, 100467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2022.100467

Borg I. (2018). Universalism lost? The magnitude and spatial pattern of residualisation in the public housing sector in Sweden 1993-2012. Journal of Housing and The Built Environment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-018-09638-8

Ida Borg & Maria Brandén (2018) Do high levels of home-ownership create unemployment? Introducing the missing link between housing tenure and unemployment, Housing Studies, 33:4, 501 524, DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1358808

Borg, I. (2015) Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types. Housing, Theory and Society, 32(1), pp 73-93

Book chapters

Borg I. and Guio, A.-C. (2021), “Improving our knowledge of housing conditions at EU level”, in Guio, A.-C., Marlier, E. and Nolan B. (eds), Improving the understanding of poverty and social exclusion in Europe. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, Chapter 12. Link to full text

Fritzell, J., Hertzman, J., Bäckman, O., Borg, I., Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K. (2014) ‘Sweden: Increasing Income Inequalities and Changing Social Relations’, in Nolan, B., Salverda, W., Checchi, D., Marx, I., McKnight, A., György Tóth, I., van de Werfhorst, H. (eds.) Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries. Thirty Countries' Experiences. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Books

Borg, I. (2018). Housing, poverty, and the welfare state. Spatial distribution of tenure types and its effects on housing deprivation, unemployment and residualisation (Ph.D. dissertation). Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm.

Reports

Fritzell Johan, Bacchus Hertzmann Jennie, Bäckman Olof, Borg Ida, Ferrarini Tommy, Nelson Kenneth (2014). Country Report on Growing Inequality and its Impacts in Sweden. GINI: Growing Inequalities Impact, Amsterdam http://www.gini-research.org/articles/cr-sweden

Stenberg S-Å, Kjellbom P, Borg I, Sonmark K (2011). Varför vräks barn fortfarande? [Why are children still evicted?] Report for Ministry of Health and Social Affairs Dnr S2010/4139/FST

Media and other press

Kihlanki, H and Borg, I. (2016) Verkliga röster i debatten om svarthandel med hyreskontrakt – att tala med och inte om köpare [Real voices in the debate on black market rental contracts. To talk with and not about the buyers] PLAN, no 2, pp 44-47

Borg, I (2013). Bostadspolitiken och hyressektorn i Europa. Fronesis nr 42-43 Stockholm: Tidskriftsföreningen Fronesis

Stenberg, S.-Å., Kjellbom, P., Borg, I. & Sonmark, K. (2012). Nu är det 2012 och barn vräks fortfarande: i DN-debatt 2012-01-02. Dagens Nyheter.

Stenberg, S.-Å., Kjellbom, P., Borg, I. & Sonmark, K. (2011). Mer prat än verkstad från regeringen om vräkta barn: i DN Debatt 2011-12-24. Dagens Nyheter.

Conferences and presentations

Population Association of America, PAA. Presenting paper: Socio-spatial stratification of housing tenure trajectories in Sweden – A longitudinal cohort study. Digital presentation, April 2022

European Network for Housing Research, ENHR. Presenting paper: The political determinants of housing benefits. Digital presentation, September 2021

Collaborative housing research seminar (Forum för bostadsforskning, FBS). Presenting paper: Housing tenure trajectories in Sweden. Digital presentation, March 2021.

European Network for Housing Research, ENHR. Presenting paper: Housing tenure trajectories in Sweden. Athens, Greece 27-30th of August 2019

European Network for Housing Research, ENHR. Presenting paper: Improving our knowledge of housing conditions at the EU level. Uppsala, Sweden 26-29th of June 2018

Net-SILC3 Conference and Workshop. International Conference on “Comparative EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions”. Presenting paper: Improving our knowledge of housing conditions at EU-level. in Athens, Greece 18-20 April 2018.

European Network for Housing Research, ENHR. Presenting paper: Residualisation of public housing in Sweden. Tirana, Albania, September 4-6 2017

Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM) Organized session H3 "Housing market change and housing construction in the 21st century: Segregation, inequality, public housing, marketization, gentrification". Stockholm, June 2017. Presented paper: Residualisation of public housing in Sweden in the same session.

European Network for Housing Research, ENHR. Presenting paper: Labour market matching and home-owning sector size. Lisbon, Portugal June 29 -July 2, 2015.

American Association of Geographers, AAG conference. Presenting paper: Worker mobility and the housing market: New approaches to the size of the rental and owner-occupied sectors and its consequences for labor. Chicago, USA April 21 -25 2015

Conference and seminar organizing:

Collaborative housing research seminar (Forum för bostadsforskning, FBS). Organizing a digital seminar on “Sharing economy and housing” in September 2021, Stockholm.

Collaborative housing research seminar (Forum för bostadsforskning, FBS). Organizing (and participating in) a digital seminar on “The role of the rental sector” in March 2021, Stockholm.

Collaborative housing research seminar (Forum för bostadsforskning, FBS). Organizing a digital seminar on “Creative tenure types” in September 2020, Stockholm.

Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM) Organized session H3 "Housing market change and housing construction in the 21st century: Segregation, inequality, public housing, marketization, gentrification". Together with Professor Eva Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2017

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

• Trajectories of Latent Vulnerability and Distress: Identifying Social and Spatial Fringes of the Swedish Population

  2023. Eva K. Andersson, Ida Borg. Social Indicators Research

  Article

  It can be argued that a society is never better than how Individuals on its social and spatial fringes are faring. This motivates the purpose of this paper, which is to study how vulnerable groups can be identified, defined and explored in a spatial perspective using latent class analysis (LCA) on the whole Swedish population. We use space to refine meanings of vulnerability in individuals and groups, by contextualizing their vulnerability. This knowledge is fundamental for creating equal living conditions and for promoting the social cohesion needed for socially sustainable societies. Thus, equality and spatial integration are basic ideas in welfare policy but in recent years, the idea of integration has met various challenges with new population groups, rural–urban polarization, and disadvantaged housing areas. Using register data, we here identified life course trajectories associated with vulnerability, applying LCA to the total Swedish population aged 25 to 59 years. We identified latent classes of life courses, and detected and explored some classes with more vulnerability than others. The spatial patterns of vulnerable individuals were analysed using individualized neighbourhoods including the proportion of closest neighbours belonging to a latent class. A second LCA of vulnerable individuals refined the findings into different types of distress; extra distressed life courses were found in the metropolitan areas in Million program areas in urban outskirts, and other distressed life courses were more often found in unattractive (low housing price) rural areas, rural fringes. 

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• Socio-spatial stratification of housing tenure trajectories in Sweden – a longitudinal cohort study

  2022. Ida Borg, Juta Kawalerowicz, Eva K. Andersson. Advances in Life Course Research 57

  Article

  Individuals tend to be most mobile when they are between 20 and 40 years of age. This pattern is relatively stable across regions and over time. For geographical mobility, less is known about their transitions between different types of housing and tenure forms. In Sweden, households may select between, principally, three different types of tenure forms, each often coupled with a specific housing type. Households may rent from either public companies (municipality owned) or private landlords in multifamily dwellings, households may own their single-family house privately, or they can cooperatively own a multifamily house as a tenant-owner in an apartment. Yet we lack knowledge of which tenure trajectories individuals tend to follow during their most mobile years, and we also lack knowledge about which factors determine tenure trajectories. Our sample consist of individuals who in 1995 were aged 18–25 and who left their parental house between 1994 and 1995. This study tracks their tenure trajectories for 21 consecutive years starting in 1995 until 2015. The cohorts in our sample were the first who encountered the conditions on the deregulated housing market that are still in place in Sweden today. We followed these cohorts until they were between 39 and 46 years old and used sequence analysis to classify tenure trajectories. One result that stands out is the outstanding and increasing emphasis on home ownership in our sample, quite unlike the traditional picture of the Swedish housing market. Additionally, we found that resources in a broad sense and spatial context have a great impact on the type of trajectory individuals follow.

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• 12. Improving our knowledge of housing conditions at EU level

  2021. Ida Borg, Anne-Catherine Guio. Improving the understanding of poverty and social exclusion in Europe, 203-216

  Chapter

  Using the data from the ‘European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions’ (EU-SILC), this book reflects the results of almost 5 years of research involving data producers and data users. It aims to improve our understanding of substantive challenges facing ‘Social Europe’ and to contribute to the development of methods that provide new insights into the determinants and dynamics of income and living conditions. Through in-depth analyses, it enhances our knowledge of a wide range of topics: inequalities, role of social transfers, mortality risk due to poverty and social exclusion, intra-household variation in deprivation, between-country differences in housing conditions, unmet medical need, child deprivation, migrants’ living conditions, as well as the dynamics of in-work monetary poverty and deprivation and of multidimensional poverty. The book also puts forward robust policy-relevant indicators in these fields, including longitudinal indicators. This volume is intended both for policy-makers and statisticians and for all those concerned about the impact of economic and social policies on people’s lives and the ways in which the social dimension of Europe and its monitoring can be reinforced.

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• Universalism lost? The magnitude and spatial pattern of residualisation in the public housing sector in Sweden 1993–2012

  2019. Ida Borg. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 34 (2), 405-424

  Article

  An important feature of the Swedish housing system is universalism, meaning that housing provision should encompass broad income groups and thus not only be directed towards poor households. Considering the recent decades of marketization and liberalisation of the Swedish housing system, concerns have been raised whether universalism remains as a key feature of the Swedish housing system. The aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of processes of residualisation in Sweden. This is a process whereby the public housing sector is becoming dominated by low income households. To describe, analyse and understand processes of residualisation in Sweden and across regions, I use a novel Index of Residualisation and longitudinal register data covering the period 1993–2012. The results indicate that the rental sector as a whole is undergoing a process of residualisation, but that there are clear variations in the magnitude of residualisation across regions. The process of residualisation is most pronounced in sparsely populated regions. The relative size of the public rental sector is a key factor to consider in order to understand the diverging trends. Regions with smaller rental sectors are associated with higher levels of residualisation, indicating that public housing may have the function of social housing in these regions.

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• Do high levels of home-ownership create unemployment? Introducing the missing link between housing tenure and unemployment

  2018. Ida Borg, Maria Brandén. Housing Studies 33 (4), 501-524

  Article

  A large number of studies have demonstrated that the proportion of home-owners in a region tend to be positively associated with the unemployment levels in that region. In this paper, we introduce a missing piece of explaining this commonly found pattern. By analysing individual-level population register data on Sweden, we jointly examine the effects of micro- and macro-level home-ownership on individuals’ unemployment. The findings indicate that even though home-owners have a lower probability of being unemployed, there is a penalty for both renters and home-owners on unemployment in regions with high home-ownership rates. Differences in mobility patterns cannot explain this pattern. However, when labour market size is considered, the higher probability of unemployment in high home-owning regions is drastically reduced. This suggests that high home-ownership regions tend to coincide with small labour markets, affecting the job matching process negatively.

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• Housing, poverty and the welfare state: Spatial distribution of tenure types and its effects on housing deprivation, unemployment and residualisation

  2018. Ida Borg.

  Thesis (Doc)

  An important question that has caused much academic debate is how to best organise the welfare state system to combat poverty and social exclusion. Much such research is focused on how to combat income poverty through core areas in the welfare state. This dissertation widens the perspective to include housing as a part of the welfare state and it represents an attempt to study poverty outcomes beyond income measures. In doing this, the dissertation uses power resource theory to understand welfare state change and the design of institutions in terms of housing tenures, and shows how this design might affect individual outcomes. Thus, the overall aim of this dissertation is to gain knowledge of the principles that underpin the design and organisation of the housing market in terms of tenure types and to understand the ways in which this design might affect the well-being of individuals and the society as a whole. The dissertation consists of an introductory essay and four papers. The introductory essay presents my theoretical approach and methodology. It also summarises the papers and discusses my main findings.

  Paper I analyses the extent to which the organisation of the rental sector may explain cross-national differences in the prevalence of housing deprivation. Using a multilevel framework on survey data covering 26 European countries, I find that a large and integrated rental sector significantly reduces the prevalence of housing deprivation across EU countries. The organisation of the rental sector appears to be crucial when it comes to reducing poverty and social exclusion in terms of housing insufficiencies.

  Paper II continues the quest to find explanations of the variations in the prevalence of housing deprivation in Europe. Our results develop the findings of Paper I. We find that a high proportion of outright owners is positively associated with housing deprivation. This is suggested to reflect the historical and political processes that affect the housing markets in eastern and southern European housing regimes.

  Paper III investigates a puzzle regarding the relationship between the extent of home-ownership and unemployment. At the macro level, more home-owners indicate higher unemployment rates, while home-owners in general are less unemployed. What can explain this? In this paper, we show that regions with high home-ownership also tend to be regions with small labour markets, which affects the efficiency of matching on the labour market.

  Paper IV turns to the process of residualisation, a process which can be described as when the public or social rental sectors become dominated by low-income households. For Sweden, this process is of key interest since the public housing sector aims to be universal and is not directed towards any specific income group. The results indicate a clear trend towards increasing residualisation. The trend is most pronounced in sparsely populated municipalities, while the public rental sector is quite mixed in larger cities and municipalities near larger cities.

  This dissertation offers a contribution to the field of housing by showing that power resource theory may be used to understand institutional design in terms of tenure types, and that this design also affects individual outcomes. Moreover, power resource theory is presented as a viable theory to understand geographical variation in institutional design across and within countries.

   

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• Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

  2015. Ida Borg. Housing, Theory and Society 32 (1), 73-93

  Article

  The purpose of this paper is to analyse the link between housing tenure typesand housing deprivation in 26 European countries. Empirical analyses are based onEuropean Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2007, enabling comparisons ofdeprivation across a large set of countries. A multilevel framework is employed. It is hypothesizedthat the organization of the rental sector inherently produces different housing marketdynamics, which is likely to affect housing deprivation rates. An integrated rental sector coveringbroader parts of the population is expected to reduce the risk of housing deprivation.Housing deprivation is measured in terms of experiencing overcrowding and while also sufferingany of the following accommodation problems: a leaking roof; no bath/shower; no indoortoilet; or a dwelling considered too dark. The findings indicate a negative association betweenthe size of the rental sector and the prevalence of housing deprivation. The organization of therental sector appears crucial and only an integrated rental sector encompassing broader partsof the population significantly reduces the prevalence of housing deprivation and its components.This association is robust in terms of confounding factors at the individual-level andcentral country-level contextual variables.

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