The official way to get an apartment in Stockholm
Considering that Stockholm is among the five fastest growing regions in Europe, according to the City of Stockholm, it is fair to say the city's housing situation is urgent. Housing policies dating from earlier decades established a system in Stockholm, where people only gain access to rental apartments (with capped prices) by registering in a queue, and waiting for an apartment allotted by the Stockholm Housing Agency . The intention was to make sure that everybody, not only the wealthy, could afford to live in central Stockholm . But as the city has grown in size, the queuing times have become longer. Gradually the entire rental market in the Swedish capital has gone "dark", meaning that your best chance of finding a flat is to rely on family- or professional connections. These two graphs show the numbers behind the other option for getting your flat in Stockholm, i.e. queuing up. This graph shows how quickly the waiting lines have grown for apartments in Stockhol...