Based on the new law, the Swedish Migration Agency will now begin to assign people who have been granted temporary protection to a municipality.
According to instructions, the municipalities have four weeks to arrange the accommodation.
The new apartments in Västerås are intended to accommodate around 200 people, depending on how many people live in each apartment.
- What we do now is make sure that there is equipment such as beds and dining tables.
There is a clear list from the Swedish Migration Agency with what each apartment should have, Christina Klang points out.
Employees who know Ukrainian and Russian
To welcome and help those who will live in the apartments, people who speak Ukrainian and Russian are included in the integration unit's team.
- Of course, it will be extremely important for us to be able to inform in a language they master, explains Gebro Akpinar, head of the integration unit in the city of Västerås.
More even distribution of housing
The idea is that the change will make it a more even distribution of housing.
- Last time, in 2015, it was quite uneven.
Many municipalities received very many more and others much fewer, says Christina Klang.
In the clip, Christina Klang talks about the change that is taking place from the first of July.