Hear what a surprise Tranemo got in the hunt for a desolate house in the clip above.
Today, close to 12,000 people live in Tranemo.
But the municipality wants to grow.
The goal is to become 14,000 inhabitants by 2035. Tranemo municipality hopes that the desolate houses will help the municipality reach this goal, that new inhabitants will be able to move into the empty houses and that the countryside will thus be kept alive.
The municipality has informed owners of uninhabited houses to contact a broker if it is the case that the property is not used or it is otherwise possible to sell.
However, Tranemo municipality is far from the first to invest in desolate houses.
This is a trend that more and more municipalities are jumping on.
One municipality that was out early is Falkenberg.
Already in the autumn of 2017, Falkenberg municipality inventoried uninhabited properties.
The idea was that these houses would contribute to more housing in the countryside.
Mark also hunts desolate houses
Many municipalities around Sweden are now trying to copy Falkenberg's approach.
Desert houses will also be inventoried elsewhere in the Sjuhäradsbygden.
The municipality of Mark, for example, is now looking for a project manager for just such a project.
The job advertisement states that: "There are uninhabited houses in the municipality that, through mapping and marketing, can be filled with new life again."
SVT is looking for a desolate house
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