The (Parliamentary) Committee on Housing ( sv, Bostadsutskottet, BoU) was a
parliamentary committee
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...
in the Swedish
Riksdag up until 2006. The committee prepared, among other things, policies about
housing
Housing, or more generally, living spaces, refers to the construction and housing authority, assigned usage of houses or buildings individually or collectively, for the purpose of Shelter (building), shelter. Housing ensures that members of so ...
and about
land tenure
In common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb "tenir" 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 between both individua ...
,
dwelling
In law, a dwelling (also known as a residence or an abode) is a self-contained unit of accommodation used by one or more households as a home - such as a house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat, vehicle, or other "substantial" structure. T ...
policies,
water law
Water resources law (in some jurisdictions, shortened to "water law") is the field of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource. It is most closely related to property law, and is distinct from laws governing wat ...
, 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 othe ...
and
surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ...
, 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 ...
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
Ragnwi Marcelind (1953-2021) was a Swedish Christian Democratic politician. She was a member of the Riksdag from 1998 to 2006. From 2006 she was the State Secretary for Maria Larsson
Ingrid Maria Larsson (born 20 January 1956 in Långasjö) ...
for the Christian Democrats
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Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social te ...
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