Here the social director visits the shelter - and is confronted by Marika

When Marika Sellgren was evicted from her rental apartment earlier this year, the social services rejected her application for a housing benefit, citing that her need for assistance was not large enough.

Instead, she got a place at the hostel Rysseviken, which the social service pays for. There she shares housing with active addicts and other people with psychiatric diagnoses.

Mats Fors is Head of Unit at the social service Södermalm and responsible for the decision to place Marika on Rysseviken. When he visits the shelter, it has been four months since she was evicted.

- This place is not good. In addition, there is black mold here and I have talked about it but nothing happened, says Marika to the social director.

When the Assignment Review team visits Rysseviken on several occasions, they see two staff members among the residents.

Marika shows Mats Fors that the water in the tap has a brown color and tells that others at the shelter are killing themselves.

- There's nothing. There are surveillance cameras, two staff of 50 people. You pay 28,000 a month. Do you understand? It's totally insane, she says.

In the last five years alone, four people have died on the Russian Gulf. From January 1 to May 22 this year, the police made 23 calls to the accommodation.

"Obviously, this is not something I think is great, which I am proud of," says Mats Fors.

- No man would have to live like this. At the same time, the conditions that exist and what we have to work with ...

But can you blame it on that?

- No, that's an explanation. I do not blame myself, but I say based on what we have to work with on the social services and the people we work with, what the legislation looks like, cooperation with others, with psychiatry and so on.

But are you responsible for finding accommodations that are worthy?

- Yes.

When Mats Fors leaves the Russian Gulf, he and Marika stand outside the entrance and take each other's hands.

- There are a lot of things that have gone wrong and we may look at different things in different ways. But the important thing is that we talk about it. We need to do what we can and invite, and you need to do what you can and invite. Then we can reach forward somehow.

In the summer, after the social manager's visit to Rysseviken, the social service Marika moved to a short-term accommodation in central Stockholm. She doesn't know how long she will stay there.

Rysseviken AB has declined to respond to criticism of the accommodation.