You can find the housing report for 2023 here. here.
The housing shortage for students is increasing again, after temporary relief during the pandemic. Six study locations have worse results in this year's housing report compared to last year. At the same time, high rents continue to be a major problem and in several locations parts of the stock have been liquidated during the pandemic.
The Swedish National Union of Students, SFS, releases an annual housing report that maps the housing situation for the country's students at 34 study locations. Each location is given a color marking depending on how quickly students can be offered safe housing.
If students can be offered safe accommodation at a study location within a month, the location receives a green mark. If a student can get accommodation within a semester, the location receives a yellow mark, and if it takes more than a semester to get accommodation, the location receives a red mark.
– During the pandemic, the pressure on the housing market eased in many study locations, as more people studied remotely and therefore did not move to their new study location. Now we know that the relief was only temporary. Almost all study locations have increased search pressure for student housing this year, says Linn Svärd, chair of the Swedish National Union of Students.
The number of green-marked study locations doubled during the pandemic years. However, this year the number of red-marked cities increased again for the first time since the 2019 housing report. Six locations have received a worse marking than in last year's report.
– A problem that exists in some locations is that student housing has been converted to other types of accommodation because the need was lower during the pandemic. Combined with the fact that many students have excessively high rents, we are concerned about the future development, says Linn Svärd.
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Changes between 2021 and 2022:
- Deterioration: Borås, Jönköping and Eskilstuna have gone from green to yellow color
- Deterioration: Karlskrona, Malmö and Uppsala have gone from yellow to red color
- Improvement: Helsingborg and Linköping have gone from yellow to green color
Percentage of students divided into color markings
- 24% of all students live in a green-marked city
- 15% live in a yellow-marked city
- 61% live in a red-marked city