Flytt i samband med renovering

Sammanfattning: The growing need for renovations is one of the key challenges within the Swedish multifamily rental stock. Sustainable development is essential and renovations affect all three major categories of sustainability, the social, economic and ecological factors. All buildings need to be remodeled sooner or later – the question is only when and how. With this in mind it is important to understand how renovations affect tenants’ will or wish to relocate. To succeed in dealing with the challenges revolving around these renovations, there is a need for broad and well-researched knowledge on the subject. The aim of this study is to investigate to what extent residents move out of their homes when they are affected by a renovation project. This is done by comparing renovated and unrenovated buildings located within in vicinity of each other. The study is based on data from all renovation projects within the multifamily residential stock during 2010-2022. This data includes building specific information such as size, rent increases, median income and ownership details. To map and compare relocations in relationship to renovation projects the following research questions have been studied: • How do relocation patterns differ between renovated and unrenovated buildings for comparable buildings within the same vicinity? • How do the differences in shares for relocations within renovated and unrenovated buildings compare, considering median income and rent increases, among buildings located in the same area? • Is it possible to observe a difference in relocation patterns between public and private rental multifamily residential buildings, in relation to renovations? The result from this study indicates a strong connection between larger renovations projects and the number of relocations. A larger percentage of the tenants move from the renovation projects, in comparison to its neighboring, unrenovated buildings. Moreover, the result shows that there have been relatively few large remodeling projects, in relation to the need, during the last decade. This might indicate that there are more large renovations to come. Furthermore, an important finding is that the share of people who relocate seems to be larger in buildings with a low median income, regardless of if there has been a renovation or not. The decision to move is influenced by various factors, with renovation being just one among them. Tenants’ attitudes towards renovations are affected by personal preference and the nature of the renovation. Rent increases, especially in relation to income, can play a crucial role for some in the decision to either move or stay. Results from this study show that significant rent increases, in connection to large renovation projects, cause more people to move, in comparison to when no large rent increase are present. Despite this, there is still a measurable change in how many people move out of the latter buildings. This indicates that it is not necessarily the rent increase by itself that makes people relocate. Instead, the decision might be related to disturbances caused by the renovation. The connection between the size of the renovation and the rent increase should also be considered since larger renovations also cause more disturbance. Due to this, the underlying cause cannot be concluded with certainty.