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Social Housing in Sweden = Public housingThe term social housing is not used in Sweden. A more precise term is public housing – in Swedish “allmännytta” (in a literal sense – “useful for everybody”), translated from the German word gemainnützig. The public housing companies are companies or institutions often run by a municipality in order to offer good dwellings without profit. The dwellings are mainly flats with right of tenancy.
1 400 000 tenants lives in nearly 850 000 dwellings owned by 300 public housing companies “allmännyttan” in Sweden.
Standard and energy issues in allmännyttanThe standard of the flats are overall very well kept. The public housing has programs for maintaining the real estates. The heating systems differ, but the main sources for heating are normally district heating, oil-boilers, but also heat pumps or electricity. The rent includes heating hot and cold water; the rent does not include the household electricity (to the lighting, electrical equipment in the flats such as TV, computers, freezer, refrigerators etc). Many of the public housing companies also offers the tenants garages, sometimes with heating and sometimes without. Often the garages or parking lots have possibilities for engine pre-heating. The tenants pay rent for the garages and parkinglots. The tenants can normally adjust the radiators, usually within limits, not raise the temperature higher than a certain temperature (usually 21-22 degrees centigrade) but decrease it. The kitchen equipment (refrigerator, freezer, stove and in high standard flats sometimes washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwasher etc) belongs to the housing company and therefore the tenants cannot make energy efficiency choices for this. The main (only) energy parts the tenants can have an direct influence on (with feedback by lower or higher bills) are the use household electricity. The costs for heating and hot water are of course included in the rent but not separately for each flat. Some apartment houses are installing equipment for individual measuring of the energy consumption. In these flats the tenants often have higher limit of the temperature since the tenants that desire a higher temperature also pays extra for this and vice versa. Who lives in public housingThere are no criteria of income level for the tenants. The “allmännytta” is aimed for anyone/everybody and the rent are adjusted to the market. The tenants who due to economical reasons are unable to pay rent receive subsidy. Within the SHARE project the Energy Agency of Southeast Sweden will not have activities direct to these groups since they cannot be pointed out in the system. The activities will direct all tenants in the allmännytta, the limits will geographical to delimit the project. |
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