How to Work With Safety in Particularly Vulnerable Areas A Case Study of Bredfjäll

Abstract

Many of the areas created during the Million program face issues in social sustainability and safety, both due to how the environment was built as well as how the integration into society was dealt with. According to the global goal nr.11, city developers have an added responsibility to include social sustainability in their work. The purpose of this thesis is to gather knowledge about how housing companies can work with safety in particularly vulnerable areas, by doing a case study of how Bostadsbolaget works with safety in Bredfjäll. To achieve this, knowledge from different actors and other projects in Sweden that work with safety and social sustainability is gathered. The study has been conducted through an observation study, as well as an interview study including 26 respondents, including both different actors working with social sustainability and different reference projects in Sweden. The results find the importance for Bostadsbolaget to have a long-term working method when working with safety and highlight the importance of good collaboration with different actors in the area and including citizens in the process.