This book offers a case study that includes two Swedish housing development companies which have targeted a market niche for affordable homes that few other companies and market actors are concerned with. It provides first-hand insights into how the production of affordable homes takes place in a real-world economy.

Alexander Styhre is chair of management and organization, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Part I: The institutionally embedded production of affordable housing 1. The housing question: political deliberations and policymaking in financialized housing markets 2. The welfare consequences of housing policy Part II: To supply commercially affordable housing: how to align policies and practices 3. The methodology of the study 4. To acquire buildable land: collaborating with municipality agencies and their officials 5. The mundanity of cost cutting: the value of small wins in affordable housing production 6. Affordable housing and the aesthetic imperative: who gets to decide what to be built? 7. Meaning and social contributions in affordable housing production: the perceived value of work that matters 8. To supply affordable homes: theoretical contributions and policy implications