The Alliance's proposal to convert 4,000 rental apartments in Gothenburg over the next three years to tenant-owner housing has met with strong protests. So strong that, in order to get through its budget, it was necessary to remove the figure concerning how many municipal condominiums to be sold.
However, the tenants' association still considers the budget a threat to their members.
"The figure has been removed under pressure from the protests, but at the same time there is a letter saying that the conversions will increase and that there is still a great threat to the tenant right," says Kristofer Lundberg, regional chairman of the Housing Association in western Sweden.