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A homeless person's bed in Göteborg, Sweden, 2013.. Homelessness in Sweden affects c. 28,000 people. [1]The Swedish government's response to homelessness has included commissioning national surveys on homelessness during the last decade that allow for direct comparison between Sweden, Denmark and Norway. [2]
By 1999, in the capital Sarajevo only 15,000 out of an estimated 45,000 illegally built houses had been submitted for legalization. [1] After the Bosnian War (1992-1995), almost four-fifths of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bosnia and Herzegovina were squatting .
It is known for its opposition to non-white immigration to Sweden. [44] The NRM is considered a central actor in Sweden's white power movement. [45] In November 2003 the Swedish Security Service raided homes of leading members, among them Lund, who was later sentenced to prison for illegal possession of firearms. [46]
The location of the pile dwelling as seen in 2005. The Alvastra pile-dwelling (Swedish: Alvastra pålbyggnad or Alvastraboplatsen) is a pile dwelling (also called a stilt house) from ca 3000 BC in Alvastra, Ödeshög Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden.
Around half of the domestic property offences reported in the SCS 2013 are stated as having been reported to the police, and the overwhelming majority of crime victims state that this happened only once in 2012. [13] Theft of personal property and pickpocketing are among the lowest in Europe, as is car theft and theft from a car. [43]
Vulnerable area (Swedish: Utsatt område) is a term applied by the Swedish Police Authority to areas with high crime rates and social exclusion. [1] [2] [3] They are not referred to in Sweden as no-go zones, neither by police nor the population in general.
Refurbished Million Programme homes in Rinkeby (2009). The Million Programme (Swedish: Miljonprogrammet) was a large public housing program implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 by the governing Swedish Social Democratic Party to ensure the availability of affordable, high-quality housing to all Swedish citizens.
The beginnings of the "Yugo Mafia" came with the large waves of guest-workers from Yugoslavia to Northern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. During this time Socialist Yugoslavia was emptying its prisons and flooding Western Europe with Yugoslav criminals, many of whom created organized criminal rings in Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Sweden.