Evalutaion of Sweden’s accessibility requirements for housing

Sammanfattning: Today all newly constructed accommodations need to complete all the accessibility requirements for housing. This is part of the final goal to achieve a complete existence of only accessible housing with in Sweden. According to some people this seems a bit unreasonably considering only a fraction of Sweden’s inhabitants need this type of accessible housing. To build accessible is considered very expansive and not accompanying a financial sustainable society. Because of this, this thesis will conduct an evaluation of Sweden’s accessibility requirements. The method of this evaluation concludes a minor literature review and field survey. A total of five interviews has been executed with people that in different ways are affected by the accessibility requirements. The purpose of these interviews is to understand what the industries perception is of today’s accessibility requirements and found out how they work in practice. This report also investigates the possibility of an availability fund. This fund would require every real estate developer to capitalize an amount of money which later can be used for accessibility adaption when necessary. This will be possible since new accessibility quotes will be introduced, which will result in lowered productions costs. This thesis discussion is based on an analysis and comparison of the results from the literature review and the field survey. This discussion leads up to five recommendations on how the subject of accessibility can improve and develop. These recommendations consist of, Visit availability; Availability fund; An review of Boverkets building regulations; Type-approver solution proposals & Open discussion.