Accommodation for those who have protection under the Temporary Protection Directive
You can choose to arrange your own accommodation or get help from the Swedish Migration Agency. If you need help with accommodation, you must visit us personally.
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If you need help with accommodation, you cannot choose where in the country you are going to live. You can stay wherever you want if you can arrange your accommodation on your own, or with the help of private individuals or NGOs. However, where you choose to live may affect your right to financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency.
Living in your own accommodation
If you choose to arrange your accommodation yourself, you will have to pay the rent yourself. Remember to notify the Swedish Migration Agency of your address if you arrange your accommodation yourself. You can do this by sending a completed Address notification or change of address (Mot93) form to your nearest Unit for Reception.
How to fill in the Adressanmälan eller adressändring (Mot93) form
Your right to financial assistance may be affected by where you live
The Swedish Migration Agency has a list of residential areas with social and economic challenges. Anyone who chooses to live in such an area may lose their right to financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency.
Here you can find out if the address you want to move to is located in an area that may affect your right to compensation from the Swedish Migration Agency.
Enter the address
Green tick = The right to compensation is not affected by moving to the address
Help with accommodation
If you cannot arrange your accommodation on your own, you are entitled to help from the Swedish Migration Agency, both while you are waiting for a decision and when you have received a decision on protection under the Temporary Protection Directive.
You can tell us if you need help with accommodation when you apply for a residence permit or later. If you first arrange your accommodation on your own, but your situation changes so that you later need help with accommodation, you should contact the Swedish Migration Agency by visiting your reception unit, one of the Swedish Migration Agency’ service centres or an office that receives applications for protection under the Temporary Protection Directive.
Find addresses for our offices
You cannot choose where to live
If you need the Swedish Migration Agency’s help with housing, you do not get to choose where you will live. You will be assigned accommodation where there are places available. 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 accommodation. 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.
It may take up to a month before you receive an offer to move to accommodations arranged by the municipality. In the meantime, you can live in one of the Swedish Migration Agency's temporary accommodations. If you decline to move to the flat offered to you by the municipality, you can arrange your accommodation on your own.
Different types of housing
Both the Swedish Migration Agency's accommodation and the accommodation offered to you by the municipality can vary. It may be a flat 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 can expect to share a room with other people. A family is always allowed to live together. Single people will share a room with others of the same sex, but people with special needs can be allowed to live by themselves. Due to the risk of allergies and infection, pets are not allowed in the Swedish Migration Agency's accommodation.
If you have your own money, you must pay for your accommodation
If you have your own money, for example if you work or if you have other assets, you must pay for the accommodation you receive from the Swedish Migration Agency or from the municipality. How much you have to pay depends, among other things, on whether or not food is served at the accommodation.
Inform the Swedish Migration Agency about your financial situation when you ask for help with accommodation. If it emerges that you have earned money without informing the Swedish Migration Agency, you may have to pay compensation for the accommodation retroactively. That is why you should let us know right away if your financial situation changes.
Adapted accommodation
You may be entitled to accommodation that is adapted to your needs if you are in a particularly vulnerable situation. This may apply, for example, if you have a disability, suffer from physical or mental illness, or are LGBTQI, pregnant or elderly. Talk to the Swedish Migration Agency about your needs as soon as possible, and we will do our best to find accommodation that is suitable for you.
Frequently asked questions and answers about accommodation
Once you have been listed in the Swedish Population Register
Once you have had a residence permit for one year, you must notify the Swedish Tax Agency of your move to Sweden, so that you can be listed in the Swedish Population Register. Once you are listed in the Swedish Population Register, your accommodation is affected in different ways. depending on your living situation. If you have arranged your accommodation yourself, you can stay where you are. If you live in one of the Swedish Migration Agency’s temporary accommodations, you must move, and if you have accommodation arranged by the municipality, you may sometimes need to move to another accommodation.
If you live in accommodation provided by the Swedish Migration Agency or the municipality and need to move, you will receive help with getting a new place to live, but once you have been listed in the Swedish Population Register, you will have to pay the rent yourself. If you cannot pay the rent yourself, in some cases you can receive financial support from the municipality. If you have to move, you will receive information about what applies to you.
If you need help finding a new place to live after you have been listed in the Swedish Population Register, you can contact the municipality. Some municipalities have municipal housing agencies to which you can apply for housing, and the municipality can also give you tips about private landlords.