Sixteen different disability associations are being evicted as the local government has earmarked their premises in central Piteå to house newly-arrived migrants. The affected organisations under Sweden’s disability umbrella, which include groups for the elderly and infirm and people with dementia, fear it will be difficult to find new premises that they can both afford and are accessible to the people they help. Piteå’s Cooperative Body of Organisations of Disabled People (HSO) has rented the large, two storey building, in which 16 groups serve nearly 3,000 members across the city, for 22 years. The municipality, governed by a Red-Red-Green coalition...