Reasonable “pay 22 000 – Daily News

Reasonable "pay 22 000 – Daily News

     
     
     
     
     
 

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The “galloping rental levels” is a problem. Meanwhile, a rent of 22,000 crowns for a femrummare in central Stockholm reasonable, says Ingela Lindh, president of the municipal housing company Stockholmshem.

                 
             

         
         

             
                 
                 

                     

 

The “galloping rental levels” is a problem. Meanwhile, a rent of 22,000 crowns for a femrummare in central Stockholm reasonable, says Ingela Lindh, president of the municipal housing company Stockholmshem.

Stockholmshem landlord is behind the emerging neighborhood rein in Stockholm’s Sodermalm neighborhood. There lies the rents average of 2,400 per square meter and year – the highest ever rents for newly constructed rental apartments in Sweden.

 Rent negotiations between Stockholmshem and Tenants Association recently crashed together. Stockholmshem have then chosen to set rents unilaterally, without negotiation. But the rent level should be able to meet a test of the Rent Tribunal, believes President Ingela Lindh.

 
        
             

     
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  – We have made an assessment of what use value is. Location plays a big role. But it is also the high quality of the apartments.

 Stockholmshem would like to build cheap if it did, says Ingela Lindh. While she defends itself against “the notion that public housing should just build cheap apartments.”

 - We at Stockholmshem 25,000 apartments. Most of them have rents of between 900 and 1,100 crowns square. We are building for refugee families in Skarpnack, we build youth housing and student housing. And now we are building 220 apartments with high rent in Södermalm. I think this is actually quite reasonable – if we think we should have a common benefit of all income groups.

  Do we have the low rents in the existing housing stock?

 - Partially, yes. I do not want to introduce market rents in Stockholm. There are no countries that have market rents as they also have a so-called social housing and I want to avoid at all costs. But we’ve been through this with the property owners and tenant associations and look for example that some of the rents in the inner city of Stockholm is too low in relation to what you pay for equivalent houses in the suburbs.