The tenants' association's chairman Marie Linder demands that the state actively steps into the municipalities in the north - such as Skellefteå - where many new homes are needed due to large industrial investments.
It can be about government construction loans or a reverse relocation grant for those moving to northern Sweden.
- You have to make sure to build communities and housing where people can afford to live, she says.
But the housing minister says in an interview with SVT Nyheter Norrbotten that they are planning other measures, such as reforms to increase the availability of buildable land.
- We do not believe that costly subsidies with low accuracy are the most important measure to reverse the development in the housing market, says Infrastructure and Housing Minister Andreas Carlson (KD).