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This project addresses a topical issue of cross-national learning in the governance of social housing. There has been British interest in the housing policies and experiences of other countries for many years. Sweden offered particular attractions to academics and policy-makers in the UK looking for new institutional solutions to address problems in socially owned housing. The Swedish institutional concept of a local housing company, has been explored and developed in the UK. Since the first visits, there has been increasing cross-national communication between academics, facilitated both by formal research networks and other networks of a less formal nature. This study seeks to identify the study rationales, methods and frameworks used by those who undertook study visits and to identify a possible checklist of key conditions for critical appraisal of housing policy transfer in future. The objectives of this proposal are to * understand the rationale for investigating the Swedish arrangements * establish how the UK actors went about gathering information, making contacts, and accessing networks and information about the country and housing system * establish what frameworks - if any - they used to assess the transferability of the models

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