Mimer's CEO does not want to reintroduce income requirements: "The evictions have not increased"

The reason why Mimer removed the requirement that tenants must have a certain fixed income was that the forms of employment had changed.

With an income requirement, people who were project employees or freelancers would not have the opportunity to rent an apartment from Mimer, according to CEO Mikael Källqvist. 

The discussion about income requirements at the company has flared up again when the Moderates in Västerås wrote a motion where they want Mimer to reintroduce the income requirement to prevent people from being evicted.

The moderates believe that without an income requirement, people can rent an apartment that they cannot otherwise afford and this in turn leads to problems with the rent and ultimately eviction.  

Mimer's CEO, on the other hand, does not agree that an income requirement and the number of evictions go hand in hand. 

- We see no trend that the evictions have increased since we removed the income requirement, says Mikael Källqvist.

In the clip, Mimer's CEO Mikael Källqvist talks about how they have tightened up the control of tenants and how an income requirement would mean that only the middle class can afford to rent a home.