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"In this area people use a lot of hot water". Renewal of public housing and the role of local hybrid companies.

Gun Hedlund
University of Örebro
Gun Hedlund
University of Örebro

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study multi-level governance in creating the good life in public housing in a Swedish municipality, Borlange. The effort to handle the so called energy efficiancy gap where technical solutions clash with social, political and culturals factors is investigated. The goal to create a good living is mainly implemented by hybrid-companies where market principles are dominating. The role of politics is diffuse and gender and etnicity are important factors in understanding how the effort to mobilze new groups are implemented. The challenge to integrate the needs and wishes from the people living in the area with technical solutions articulated from white, men is studied. One result is that the avoidance of etnicity is seen as a