A total of 100 of Vätterhem's 600 student housing units on Råslätt in Jönköping will now be converted into ordinary apartments.

The reason is that the interest has been too bad for several years and that the market seems to be saturated, according to Raymond Paska, CEO of Vätterhem.

- There is a larger supply than demand and then it is justified to let others use these.

He says that already three years ago, when they saw vacancies in Råslätt, they began to have discussions with Jönköping University about reducing the stock of student rooms.

- The remarkable thing is that even though we have reduced by 100 rooms, we still have a good distance into the semester 30 vacant rooms at Råslätt, says Raymond Paska.

More student housing has been built since last year, which has contributed to reducing the housing shortage somewhat for the students.

Jönköping was recently marked in green in a summary of the housing situation from Sweden's united student unions, SFS,

SVT already reported in 2020 that several student rooms at Råslätt were empty before the start of the semester.

This is what it looked like then:

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Eva Blomquist, manager at Vätterhem, believes that it is a unique situation that so many large student rooms are empty so close to the autumn term.

Photo: SVT / Linda Mathillas