Sweden overwhelmed by housing crisis, says Skanska
Stockholm
AS a wintry chill settles over Sweden and the government struggles to find shelter for tens of thousands of refugees who have streamed across the border, the Nordic country's biggest construction company Skanska AB says the private sector should be brought in to help build infrastructure.
As many as 190,000 asylum seekers are expected to arrive in Sweden this year, a development that has overwhelmed authorities who have already run out of places for them to live.
Some families are sleeping in heated army tents and in the streets of the southern city of Malmoe. The influx mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq into the country of 10 million people could reach more than 350,000 in total this year and next, according…
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