“Malmö’s seniors can get the move up to the housetops”

“What do you do when there is a lack of both plots and homes and the elderly population increases? Build senioranpassat on the rooftops – this is in all cases the recipe if you ask the architects, municipal employees, retirees, and experts are debating how the future of senior housing in Malmö.”

“One of the ideas was to allow the building of housing for older people up on the rooftops, reports the SVT News Sweden. With it, both the sweeping views and apartments customized specifically for the needs of older people.”

“– Many of the houses from the 50’s and 60’s, we can certainly build an extra floor on and it is not mainly for economic reasons, we should do it without to be able to offer something interesting and exciting for this group, ” says Christer Larsson, director of city planning in Malmö, sweden, to SVT.”