THE PRECARIOUSLY HOUSED AND THE RISK OF HOMELESSNESS - A LONGITUDINAL-STUDY OF EVICTIONS IN SWEDEN IN THE 1980S

This study is intended as a contribution to the ongoing US and Europea n debate on housing inequality and homelessness. We do this by focusin g on the problems faced by the 'precariously housed', or people repeat edly threatened with eviction, in the advanced welfare state of Sweden . Our empirical analysis is based on a sample of individuals repeatedl y threatened with eviction in Sweden in the period 1982-86. Using prop ortional hazard regressions, we show that the increase in risk for a n ew eviction threat for these individuals can best be explained by a co mbination of unfavorable social circumstances and difficult personal p roblems, both of which need to be addressed by housing policy.