1. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Forced-Move-Outs
from housing and the
Social Service´s legal roles
Pia Kjellbom
Institution of Social Work
Stockholm University
Sweden
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2. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Forced-Move-Outs
Informally
forced-move-out
Formally
forced-move-out
Eviction
Termination of a
lease
Authority decision
Enforcement authority/
Rent tribunal
Execution
Pia Kjellbom 2013
2013-10-04

3. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
The Social Service´s roles in
the Swedish rental act
YES NO
YES The Assurer
NO The observer The ignorant
…right to information about a termination of
a lease
…legal opportunity
to stop a
termination of
a lease.
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The social services
has a…
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4. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
What housingrights
do the different roles protect?
The Assurer
• A right to a
home
The
observer
• Housing
• Roof-over-
head
The ignorant
• Nothing
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5. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Applications to the Enforcement authority/Rent Tribunal
during three month, 2009 in Stockholm county
The
Enforcement
Authority
The Rent
Tribunal
Total
Applications 1695 357 2052
Formally forced-
move-outs
374 168 542 (26 %)
Evictions 69 26 95 (5 %)
Pia Kjellbom 2013
2013-10-04

6. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
The social service´s roles in relation to
formally-forced-move-outs
Pia Kjellbom 2013 2013-10-04

7. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Why haven´t the Social Services used the
role of the Assurer?
Material: Court decisions concerning right to assistance. All applications to the enforcement authority during
mars – may, 2009, in Stockholm county. Out of 39, nine districts where chosen for an in depth study of document´s
within the Social Service´s. Nine interviews with social workers and managers where conducted concerning 18 cases.
Results (in brief):
The Social Services lack knowledge about the Assurer role.
The interpretation of the provisions on assistance in the Social Services Act
Lack of respect for the law
Pia Kjellbom 2013 2013-10-04

8. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Pia Kjellbom 2013
Discretionary area
Normbelt
Anyone who cannot by themselves or otherwise meet their needs have a
right to assistance for their livelihood (income support) and for the way of life in
general (The Social service´s Act, chapter 4, section 1).
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9. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Norms within the normbelt
Legal prerequisite Norm Interpretation
Anyone who An individual norm A child perspective is
used for instance
Cannot A norm of actuality The client´s situation
here and now are
assessed
Need A housingnorm The clients housing
situation are assessed
Pia Kjellbom 2013
2013-10-04

10. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Norms that blasts the normbelt
Legal prerequisite Norm Interpretation
Anyone who A collective norm If one person in a family is not
behaving in accordance with
official requirements the
whole family is affected
Cannot A retrospective norm The individuals behaviour
prior to the risk of a forced-
move-out is assessed
Need A behaviour norm The need assessment is
made dependent on the
clients behaviour
Pia Kjellbom 2013
2013-10-04

11. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Discretionary area
Normbelt
The collective norm The retrospective norm
Blasting norms
Pia Kjellbom 2013
The behaviour norm
How about:
- Law
- Democracy
- Fundamental human rights?
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12. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Questions?
2013-10-04Pia Kjellbom 2013

13. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. What’s Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013
Thank You for listening
Contact:
pia.kjellbom@socarb.su.se
2013-10-04Pia Kjellbom 2013