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Housing problems or just neglect as families are forced to live in hostels in Rosengård, Malmö

Friday, 28 December 2012
One of Sweden's notorious social troubled spot, Rosengård in Malmö has come under criticism after social authority there has been accused of neglect when homeless children and their families where crammed in hotels and bed and breakfast rooms.

The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) has heaped heavy criticisms on the Rosengårds Social Administration for what its describes as its "devastating" approach of putting families in hotels or hostels as means of giving them a place to live. Parents who are unable to obtain apartment, have been accused of not being supported by the social services, which the National Board had deemed they failed.

Right now, there are 70 homeless children in Rosengard area alone according to Swedish television. Children who have been assessed to be living for many months in a hotel room, unable to cook or do homework in peaceful and quiet manner. The expectation of these children would be that they will fail and have not proper start in life

Rosengård traditionally is a troubled area in Sweden characterised by neglects and with lots of families here made up of people who are not indigenous Swedes. They are mostly discriminated upon due to their immigrant status and as such, are shot out of social services, housing, jobs, career and the likes. So may youths here will veer towards petit criminality. Therefore, such report about this type of neglect will not come to many as a surprise. The biggest surprise however, is the reaction of the government deportment, which has criticised the Rosengård social services.

The district manager attributed the reason for the homeless children as driven by the availability of too few cheap apartments in Malmö, while the population is growing.

In a survey conducted by the district many of these homeless families are made up of homeless families with children, women victims of violence in their relationships or families who never got into the housing market, but who put their hope in social services their housing future.

Swedish television which has carried out this study also complained of how the social services in the region had threaten them and refused to corporate in their reporting.
Sweden television said that although they had agreed to interview a family, they learnt that the family could no longer participate after threats from the social services. The station was also not allowed to ask some of the other families living rough about their situation. Lastly, they were driven away by the municipal officials.

The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare does not think Rosengard is doing enough to make families and children of those families live a comfortable life. For this reason Molmö is to be audited by the Welfare authorities to look for ways in which children of families with homelessness could be contained
by Scancomark.com Team

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