- A good question, says Jakob Niska when SVT News asks when he thinks he can move from mom and dad in Rasbo.

He has received a decision on intervention according to the LSS by the municipality, but no housing. Soon he has been queuing for two years for a home, which he is entitled to within a "reasonable time" under the law. A reasonable time is not nearly two years.

At the kitchen table in the villa in Rasbo sits Father Per-Åke Niska and mother Anna Niska. On the table is a clip from Expressen in the early 2000s. Father and son are sitting in the sandbox in the middle look. The article is about Uppsala already having major problems in obtaining LSS housing.

- I was chairman of FUB back then (an interest organization that works for children, adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities to live a good life). Uppsala was at this time the second worst in the country in this area, says Per-Åke Niska.

A long-standing problem

For several decades, the municipality of Uppsala has had major problems in living up to the law on support and service for some disabled people. Only in 2018 and so far in 2019 has the municipality been forced to pay more than SEK 2 million in fines, so that people who are granted the right to housing with special service have not received it.

Today, more than 50 people are in line and the average waiting time is 453 days. There is also a dark figure here - people who have chosen not to queue for the municipality to avoid fines.

That the municipality did not live up to the requirements of the law is well aware of Angelique Prinz Blix (L), chair of the care committee and the municipal council Helena Hedman Skoglund (L).

- This has been a backlog, and we are therefore pleased that SEK 88 million has been invested from the budget in a three-year investment, says Helena Hedman Skoglund.

- Now it becomes a workshop, says Angelique Prinz Blix, and believes that a success factor is to integrate the construction of LSS housing when the municipality builds new residential areas.

She says the goal is to get in the race, but if the money is enough to offer a home - within a reasonable time - you can't say for sure.

It is unclear what the money is enough for

The administration responds like this to the expected queue time, after the three-year investment: "The management expects to have a better balance between needs and places after the investment in LSS housing, but this is of course due to future needs."

Per-Åke Niska is positive that the municipality has allocated money in the budget to improve the situation. Compared to previous years' investments, it is about doubled funds for housing investment.

- But it's been promised before, and I believe this when I see it, says Per-Åke Niska.