The (Parliamentary) Committee on Housing (, BoU) was a
parliamentary committee
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in the Swedish
Riksdag
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up until 2006. The committee prepared, among other things, policies about
housing
Housing refers to a property containing one or more Shelter (building), shelter as a living space. Housing spaces are inhabited either by individuals or a collective group of people. Housing is also referred to as a human need and right to ...
and about
land tenure
In Common law#History, common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb "" means "to hold", is the legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement betw ...
,
dwelling
In law, a dwelling (also known as a residence, abode or domicile) is a self-contained unit of accommodation – such as a house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat, recreational vehicle, or other "substantial" structure – used as a home by ...
policies,
water law
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, planning of buildings, physical planning,
property development
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re- lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to oth ...
and
surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the land, terrestrial Plane (mathematics), two-dimensional or Three-dimensional space#In Euclidean geometry, three-dimensional positions of Point (geom ...
, as well as matters concerning the national administrative division and such
municipal
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the gov ...
issues that do not belong to any other committee's preparation area.
On 1 October 2006, the committee was assimilated, along with the
Law Committee, into the
Civil Affairs Committee.
Pressmeddelande
''riksdagen.se'' (archived)
The last Speaker of the committee was Ragnwi Marcelind for the Christian Democrats
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serving from 2004 until 2006.
List of speakers for the committee
See also
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References
Notes
Bostadsutskottet (BoU)
(archived) ''riksdagen.se'
(original)
11 December 2005
{{Committees of the Parliament of Sweden
Defunct standing committees of the Riksdag