Accommodation
Here you will find information about what applies to you when it comes to housing in Sweden.
Accommodation
You have the right to live wherever you want in Sweden if you arrange your accommodation yourself, but your choice of residential area may affect your possibility of receiving financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency.
Read more about how your address may affect your right to financial support
If you choose to arrange a accommodation yourself you will be responsible for the costs for the accommodation. The Swedish Migration Agency will not pay your rent.
Do you need help with accommodation?
If you are not able to continue to live in your own accommodation and need help from the Swedish Migration Agency to find accommodation, you cannot choose where to live.
Once you have told the Swedish Migration Agency’s staff that you need help with accommodation, we will look for a municipality that can offer you housing. If you have already lived in Sweden for a while and you have started working or your children have started school, we will try to arrange for you to stay in the municipality in which you already live, but we cannot guarantee that this will be the case. You may need to move to another municipality.
Different types of accommodation
Both the Swedish Migration Agency's accommodation and the accommodation offered to you by the municipality can vary. It may be an apartment where you cook your own food, a room where you share a kitchen with many others, or a larger accommodation centre where the food is served in a common dining room.
Anyone who needs help with housing must be prepared to share a room with other people. In most cases, family members will be able to live together. Single people will share a room with others of the same sex but people with special needs may be able to live alone. In shared accommodation, pets are normally not allowed.
If you have an income or money of your own, you will be required to pay for the accommodation the Swedish Migration Agency or the municipality arranges for you.
The Swedish Migration Agency needs to know your address
You must inform the Swedish Migration Agency how we can reach you. This means that we always need to have your address and phone number.
Use the Address Notification/Change of Address, Mot93 form
Pdf, 631.9 kB, opens in new window. to make an address notification or a change of address.
Rules in the Swedish Migration Agency's accommodations
In order for everyone to feel comfortable and get along, there are rules on how to use the common areas.
In all accommodations, you must
- keep the area clean
- not smoke indoors
- be careful with furniture and equipment
- contact the staff when something is broken.
Pets in the accommodation
As a refugee from Ukraine applying for protection under the Temporary Protection Directive, you are allowed to bring pets in the Swedish Migration Agency’s accommodations in certain places, but you must follow the directives of the Swedish Board of Agriculture regarding the entry of dogs, cats and other pets from Ukraine.
Security in the accommodation
The Swedish Migration Agency wants to ensure that everyone living in our temporary housing should feel safe in their living environment. It is therefore important that everyone respects each other and show each other consideration, regardless of religion, gender, culture or sexual orientation.
If you are subjected to threats, violence or other abusive treatment, contact the police authority at the place where you live or, in case of emergency call 911.
Fire protection
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency has as its vision that no one should be killed or be seriously injured by fire and therefore everyone in Sweden is urged to have working fire alarms in the home. The smoke detector detects smoke early and alerts you by beeping when it senses smoke and/or heat. Check that the fire retardant works where you live.
Also keep in mind that
- you must not manipulate, cover or take down fire alarms
- only certified electricians are allowed to repair or replace electrical outlets;
- Exterior doors or escape routes must not be blocked since it may make it difficult to quickly vacate the house in case of fire
- it is not permitted to bring flammable equipment or flammable liquids into Swedish the Migration Agency’s facilities (flammable equipment includes, for example, hotplates and heating elements)
- unnecessary emergency services are a burden for the emergency services. In a worst case scenario, people who seriously need help and who cannot receive it on time due to an unnecessary emergency are affected. It is illegal to press an alarm device unless there has been a fire.
For example, if a fire starts in your apartment and you cannot put out the fire yourself, you should save yourself and your family first and then alert others who may be affected by the fire, and alert emergency services by calling 112. As a last resort, you can try to put out the fire if you think it may be possible. If there is a fire in your apartment, go outside and then close the door to trap the fire and smoke in the apartment. A closed door prevents smoke from spreading to the stairwell. If the house needs to be vacated, there cannot be any smoke in the stairwell.
