Together we can stop market rents
Market rent means that the landlord determines your rent without you being entitled to collective bargaining through a tenants’ union. There is a risk that market rents will be introduced in Sweden and the Swedish Union of Tenants wants to stop that from happening.
Today, the rent is negotiated between the landlord and the tenants, who are collectively represented by tenants’ unions. This ensures that the rents are fair. The rent for identical flats should be the same! The living standard and location of a flat should determine the rent, not who can pay the most.
The fact that the rent is negotiated collectively is a security for you as a tenant and means that your rent cannot be increased arbitrarily. The Swedish Union of Tenants represents you in the rental negotiation.
The Swedish Government (the Social Democrats and the Green Party) together with the Centre Party and the Liberals wants to introduce “free rent-setting in new production”. That would mean market rents for newly built rental flats.
In the long term, we believe that this will mean that market rents will be used for all flats, because the collective bargaining will be eliminated. For the vast majority of people, market rents would mean a much higher rent. In some areas, rents could skyrocket by up to 50%.
Most tenants and voters are against market rents, yet still our politicians are proposing this.
Now the Swedish Union of Tenants is fighting hard to ensure that this does not happen. We hope you’ll join the fight!
How can you help stop market rents?
The best thing we can do is to show politicians that many people are against market rents!
- You can sign our petition.
- You can print and distribute posters and flyers in your area.
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- You can contact politicians in your municipality or politicians in parliament. The website for your municipality specifies your municipal politicians. HERE you can see which politicians in parliament represent your area.
It’s important to get involved, and doing it together makes us even stronger. Sweden has 3 million tenants. Together we can fight market rents!