MKB och Social hållbarhet - En fallstudie av ett modernt allmännyttigt kommunalt bostadsaktiebolag

Sammanfattning: Municipal housing companies in Sweden have since the end of world war two been major players in the housing market. In most cities the municipal housing companies are one of the biggest, if not the biggest, owner of housing. These companies are owned, in their entirety, by the municipality in which they operate and it is the municipality that issues the ownership directives these companies operate under. The concept of sustainable development and one of its key components, social sustainability, has in the last few decades become an integral part of all development. This includes the municipal housing market in sweden. This paper aims to examine how one of these municipal housing companies, called MKB (Malmö Kommunala Bostadsbolag), have worked with social sustainability in the 21st century. It does so by analysing the official documents released by this company regarding how they operate. This analysis will primarily be based upon a meta-analysis done by Dempsey et al. (2009) about indicators for social sustainability.