If the public housing company Kirunabostäder AB gets exactly what the company wants, rents will increase by 11.7 percent. For a three-room apartment, this corresponds to between SEK 700 and SEK 1,000, depending on when the apartment was built.
'Not reasonable'
"It's a shock and it's simply not reasonable," says Elin Bergvall.
This year, the Swedish Union of Tenants has seen record-high demands from property owners all over the country, and according to them, Kirunabostäder's demands are one of the higher.
"We have to fend off our cost increases. Like everyone else, we have had increased interest costs," says Mikael Pudas, CEO of Kirunabostäder.
Different challenges
The Tenants' Association believes that it will be very difficult to reach an agreement with Kirunabostäder on the level of the rent increase:
"We are now in the second year of a cost-of-living crisis and there are many tenants who are under severe financial pressure," says Elin Bergvall.
Is it reasonable to have such high rent increases?
"Our profit is marginal and should be higher, that's our challenge. With this rent increase, we will not be able to fend off all the costs we have," says Mikale Pudas.
In the clip, you can hear Mikael Pudas, CEO of Kirunabostäder, about the demand for a larger rent increase.