Abstract
This article mainly explains the transformations underlying the gradual privatisation and deregulation of Swedish
housing policy after the mid of 1970’s. The housing has been one of the important component to shape the Swedih welfare
state after 1930’s. The 2nd leader of Swedish Social Democratic party, named Per Albin Hanson showed policy agenda
named Folkhem (the ‘people’s home’) in 1928. This agenda promoted to establish welfare state, operating simultaneously
with regulated housing policy. Between Folkhem era and 1974, huge amount of housing were provided in the suburbs of
middle and big size of cities in Sweden with regulating housing provison. In the first of 1990’s Swedish housing policy
gradually shifted to privatisation, because of influence of neoliberalism and accedence of EU. Currnetly Swedish housing
policy functions to complement private housing markets
