- I am from Ockelbo, I am very in love with Ockelbo and want to live here for the rest of my life.

Have lived in Lingbo which also belongs to Ockelbo municipality, but there we do not have any service in the way you need when you get to the years, says Elisabeth Lindblom.

Elisabeth Lindblom has signed up for one of the seventeen apartments that are currently being built in central Ockelbo and is aimed at the target group that has passed 60. It also has consequences at all levels as the seniors sell their house, which the younger ones in many cases want.

And thus stays in Ockelbo.

Need more housing

- If we are to be able to retain Ockelbo residents and increase growth and occupancy, we need to build more housing, says the municipal board chairman Magnus Jonsson (S).

The cooperative form of ownership is a kind of mixture between and housing and tenancy.

And Kvarteret Hästen will be the first of its kind in Ockelbo.

- You pay an investment of approximately SEK 7,000 per square meter.

So for a second you have to pay a stake of 500,000, which you get back when you move.

This shape fits well in markets that are not red-hot, says the client's representative and project manager Lennart Sjögren.