Lund's municipal housing companies are testing shared housing

- A large proportion of those who apply to us are young adults who have just started their working lives but have not started a family.

We at LKF want to take responsibility for this group, but often find it difficult to offer them housing because they have too short a queue time, says Marie Enmark, business developer at LKF.

The site for the collective house will be Brunnshög, the district with offices and housing for 40,000 people that is growing around the research facilities ESS and MAX IV.

Parts of the space

In planning, great emphasis is placed on innovations and sustainability.

According to LKF, shared housing is completely in line with that idea, both socially and environmentally:

- You live in a smaller area and share both things and costs.

The rent for a bedroom with its own small bathroom will be around SEK 6,000 a month.

But that includes, for example, wifi, electricity and cleaning of common areas such as kitchens and living rooms.

In Brunnshög, LKF will be the owner but rent out the entire house to the company Colive, which will take over the role of landlord, so-called block rental.

Instead of queue matching

And unlike ordinary tenancies, the number of years in the housing queue will not matter for who gets the contract.

Instead, personal qualities and interests are crucial, as the company's business concept is to create a digital community and choose which people are suitable to live with.

A matching skill that is needed, believes Marie Enmark.

- It gets a little tighter when the tenants share a kitchen and living room and then it is important that you work well together.

How do you see that people can walk past the housing queue in this way?

- This pilot project will be such a small part of our total apartment stock of 11,000 apartments and the housing will go to the group of young adults that we previously had difficulty helping, says Marie Enmark.

- And should it not work, the apartments can be used in other ways, for example by renting blocks to the university for their international students or to other types of housing with the desire for flexibility and sharing economy.