Forced Swedish Housing Integration for Thee but Not for Me?
17th August 2025
A social democrat MP pushing for mixing low-income apartment buildings with single-family homes to force integration of immigrants and native Swedes is herself safe from having her home life affected by the proposal: She lives in a single-family home—in Denmark, Samnytt reports.
In May, the Swedish tenants’ union presented a radical proposal identifying highly desirable subdivisions with single-family homes where, it suggested, 600,000 apartments for low-income families ought to be built. And not on existing green spaces between private lots either—according to the proposal, each single-family homeowner should be forced to give up part of his lot for the construction of an apartment building. This, the tenants’ union said, would open up for a “more mixed population.”
A proposal along similar lines was adopted by the Social Democrat party congress a few weeks later.
Socialists in the U.S. love the same trick. They seem to think that putting poor semi-criminal people in the middle of rich people will make them richer and more law-abiding; it merely makes the rich people leave.