The Innovative Garden City
By Mathilda Brolin, Frida Höse, Maja Karlsson Wickman and Sofia Zilling
The innovative and family friendly garden city focuses on creating an affordable housing residential area for families and for all different socioeconomic groups. By combinating leasing of land with land allocation, a variation in prices for housing can be possible in the area. By working with an alternative rent setting system and using the municipal housing company, Järfällahus, in a strategic way, requirements could be set on who can live in the housing units created. Furthermore, the use of presumptive rent can be disregarded. Taking inspiration from the old garden city concept by working with human scale, mixed housing types, different tenure forms and the reduced need of cars, a family friendly area will be created. The area also aims to prevent segregation and by mixing condominiums with rental houses in combination of using an alternative rent setting system, it will be possible to involve different income-groups in the area.
The proposal enables for the municipality to show that they take responsibility for the economically weak in the society, by offering affordable accommodation while also including everyone else. It also gives the municipality an incentive to challenge the political system that has led to the current housing market. A market that needs a change.
