Timothy Blackwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4203754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Blackwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackwell |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKWELL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3086-8113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism
The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go‐to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, deteriorating housing affordability. Instead of referring to a temporally and spatially bound event, however, the phrase now has become a ubiquitous signifier to encompass a protracted global urban condition. Such framings, both tacit and explicit, ar…
De-risking as accumulation? Housing, finance and macroeconomic (mis)governance in Sweden's growth model
This paper explores the institutional mechanisms through which Sweden's 'balanced growth model' generates and sustains such phenomenal private debt volumes, expounding a mode of economic governance which Sweden has exemplified for three decades: A de-risking-centred housing accumulation regime. Said regime provides a tacit safety net for broad strata of homeowners and investors, through a confluence of institutional, macro-regulatory, tax and wel…
Dialogues on Residential Accumulation
The resilience of social rental housing in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark. How institutions matter
This paper evaluates the resilience of social rental housing in the UK, Sweden and Denmark. Throughout the OECD, processes of retrenchment and privatization, alongside the growth of the owner-occupied and private rental sectors, have led to nigh universal declines in the size and scope of social rental housing. These processes have not transpired evenly, however. Embracing a historical institutionalist approach, alongside novel data and methodolo…
Dreaming of efficient markets? Residential construction, competition & affordability in the Swedish housing sector
This paper problematises the perception that enhanced competition within the Swedish residential construction sector offers a panacea to rising building costs and deteriorating housing affordability. The paper investigates the relationships between housing production, exchange, and consumption from three perspectives: (i) an historical analysis of the residential construction industry; (ii) elite semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, and …
Power, production and disorder
It is often assumed in housing and urban studies scholarship that the roots of Sweden’s present housing discontents are to be found in a neoliberal ‘system switch’ following the early-1990s banking crisis. This paper offers a different account, identifying and expounding how insuperable contradictions in Sweden’s complex of housing production, distribution and finance, from the 1970s onward, led to a marked deterioration in its much-lauded housin…
Historicizing housing typologies
Comparative housing scholars have, for many years now, imported typologies from non-housing spheres to explain housing phenomena. Notably, approaches attempting to account for divergent housing tenure patterns and trends have frequently been organized around typologies based on the assumption that a causal relationship exists between homeownership rates and the type of welfare regime or, more recently, the variety of residential capitalism a coun…
Urban heritages
Contemporary Western cities are not uniform, but display a variety of different housing forms and tenures, both between and within countries. We distinguish three general city types in this paper: low-rise, single-family dwelling cities where owner-occupation is the most prevalent tenure form; multi-dwelling building cities where tenants comprise the majority; and multi-dwelling building cities where owner-occupation is the principal tenure form.…
The origins of national housing finance systems
This paper advances the first historically informed typology of housing finance systems. Using a novel collection of historical mortgage-market data, we identify four different ‘ideal type’ systems, which developed in mature economies when organised housing finance institutions began to emerge with the advance of industrialism and urbanism throughout the long nineteenth century: informal person-to-person lending, and state lending as solutions ou…
Historicizing housing typologies
Comparative housing scholars have, for many years now, imported typologies from non-housing spheres to explain housing phenomena. Notably, approaches attempting to account for divergent housing tenure patterns and trends have frequently been organized around typologies based on the assumption that a causal relationship exists between homeownership rates and the type of welfare regime or, more recently, the variety of residential capitalism a coun…
The origins of national housing finance systems
This paper advances the first historically informed typology of housing finance systems. Using a novel collection of historical mortgage-market data, we identify four different ‘ideal type’ systems, which developed in mature economies when organised housing finance institutions began to emerge with the advance of industrialism and urbanism throughout the long nineteenth century: informal person-to-person lending, and state lending as solutions ou…
The resilience of social rental housing in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark. How institutions matter
This paper evaluates the resilience of social rental housing in the UK, Sweden and Denmark. Throughout the OECD, processes of retrenchment and privatization, alongside the growth of the owner-occupied and private rental sectors, have led to nigh universal declines in the size and scope of social rental housing. These processes have not transpired evenly, however. Embracing a historical institutionalist approach, alongside novel data and methodolo…
Urban heritages
Contemporary Western cities are not uniform, but display a variety of different housing forms and tenures, both between and within countries. We distinguish three general city types in this paper: low-rise, single-family dwelling cities where owner-occupation is the most prevalent tenure form; multi-dwelling building cities where tenants comprise the majority; and multi-dwelling building cities where owner-occupation is the principal tenure form.…
Power, production and disorder
It is often assumed in housing and urban studies scholarship that the roots of Sweden’s present housing discontents are to be found in a neoliberal ‘system switch’ following the early-1990s banking crisis. This paper offers a different account, identifying and expounding how insuperable contradictions in Sweden’s complex of housing production, distribution and finance, from the 1970s onward, led to a marked deterioration in its much-lauded housin…
Dreaming of efficient markets? Residential construction, competition & affordability in the Swedish housing sector
This paper problematises the perception that enhanced competition within the Swedish residential construction sector offers a panacea to rising building costs and deteriorating housing affordability. The paper investigates the relationships between housing production, exchange, and consumption from three perspectives: (i) an historical analysis of the residential construction industry; (ii) elite semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, and …
De-risking as accumulation? Housing, finance and macroeconomic (mis)governance in Sweden's growth model
This paper explores the institutional mechanisms through which Sweden's 'balanced growth model' generates and sustains such phenomenal private debt volumes, expounding a mode of economic governance which Sweden has exemplified for three decades: A de-risking-centred housing accumulation regime. Said regime provides a tacit safety net for broad strata of homeowners and investors, through a confluence of institutional, macro-regulatory, tax and wel…
The origins of national housing finance systems
This paper advances the first historically informed typology of housing finance systems. Using a novel collection of historical mortgage-market data, we identify four different ‘ideal type’ systems, which developed in mature economies when organised housing finance institutions began to emerge with the advance of industrialism and urbanism throughout the long nineteenth century: informal person-to-person lending, and state lending as solutions ou…
Urban heritages
Contemporary Western cities are not uniform, but display a variety of different housing forms and tenures, both between and within countries. We distinguish three general city types in this paper: low-rise, single-family dwelling cities where owner-occupation is the most prevalent tenure form; multi-dwelling building cities where tenants comprise the majority; and multi-dwelling building cities where owner-occupation is the principal tenure form.…
Historicizing housing typologies
Comparative housing scholars have, for many years now, imported typologies from non-housing spheres to explain housing phenomena. Notably, approaches attempting to account for divergent housing tenure patterns and trends have frequently been organized around typologies based on the assumption that a causal relationship exists between homeownership rates and the type of welfare regime or, more recently, the variety of residential capitalism a coun…
Power, production and disorder
It is often assumed in housing and urban studies scholarship that the roots of Sweden’s present housing discontents are to be found in a neoliberal ‘system switch’ following the early-1990s banking crisis. This paper offers a different account, identifying and expounding how insuperable contradictions in Sweden’s complex of housing production, distribution and finance, from the 1970s onward, led to a marked deterioration in its much-lauded housin…
The resilience of social rental housing in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark. How institutions matter
This paper evaluates the resilience of social rental housing in the UK, Sweden and Denmark. Throughout the OECD, processes of retrenchment and privatization, alongside the growth of the owner-occupied and private rental sectors, have led to nigh universal declines in the size and scope of social rental housing. These processes have not transpired evenly, however. Embracing a historical institutionalist approach, alongside novel data and methodolo…
Dreaming of efficient markets? Residential construction, competition & affordability in the Swedish housing sector
This paper problematises the perception that enhanced competition within the Swedish residential construction sector offers a panacea to rising building costs and deteriorating housing affordability. The paper investigates the relationships between housing production, exchange, and consumption from three perspectives: (i) an historical analysis of the residential construction industry; (ii) elite semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, and …
Dialogues on Residential Accumulation
Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism
The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go‐to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, deteriorating housing affordability. Instead of referring to a temporally and spatially bound event, however, the phrase now has become a ubiquitous signifier to encompass a protracted global urban condition. Such framings, both tacit and explicit, ar…
De-risking as accumulation? Housing, finance and macroeconomic (mis)governance in Sweden's growth model
This paper explores the institutional mechanisms through which Sweden's 'balanced growth model' generates and sustains such phenomenal private debt volumes, expounding a mode of economic governance which Sweden has exemplified for three decades: A de-risking-centred housing accumulation regime. Said regime provides a tacit safety net for broad strata of homeowners and investors, through a confluence of institutional, macro-regulatory, tax and wel…
Economics (9 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Housing Market and Economics (6 works) · Economy (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)