Municipal housing

A dwelling with municipal right of disposal is a dwelling that the municipality can rent to its inhabitants through a tenancy agreement, for example nursing and care dwellings, dwellings for refugees, dwellings for socially and/or financially disadvantaged etc. Nursing homes, old people's homes etc without tenancy agreement are not included.

Nursing and care dwellings are dwellings built with grants from the Norwegian State Housing Bank (given from 1994 onwards).

There are three types of tenure status for municipal dwellings . These are municipally owned for rental, rented by the municipality for sublease and privately owned with municipal right of disposal .

Adapted dwellings are municipal disposed dwellings adapted for wheelchair users.

The number of let dwellings is the total number of tenancy agreements as of 31 December.

The residents of municipal dwellings are grouped into the following categories:

Refugees, households in need of an adapted dwelling, mentally ill, substance abusers, people who are both mentally ill and substance abusers, households with other problems and households without means testing.

Temporary stay: Until a permanent dwelling is available the municipality is obliged to provide temporary housing to people who are not able to find a dwelling themselves. For such stays, payment is made per bed-night, e.g. shelter, boarding house, hotel, cottage, caravan etc.

Figures are available for temporary stays divided by duration of stay (0-3 months and more than 3 months).

Norway's 430 municipalities are divided into 16 groups by population and framework conditions. The classification is based on Langørgen, A., R. Aaberge og E.R. Åserud (2001): Gruppering av kommuner etter folkemengde og økonomiske rammebetingelser 1998. Rapporter 2001/35, Statistics Norway (available in Norwegian only).