A 340 million (€32m) kronor deal struck by Malmö's city government to build 133 new apartments for homeless Malmö families has been ruled illegal by the Administrative Court of Appeal in Gothenburg.
A McDonald's representative has said that everyone is welcome at their restaurants, after a woman told The Local she was prevented from buying food for a homeless man in Stockholm.
A Stockholm charity warns that the number of homeless people is on the increase as a result of Sweden's housing crisis, which is squeezing out those on low incomes who can't afford to rent.
A Swedish man has claimed that a photo of a homeless girl in Italy, which went viral after some linked it to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, is in fact his missing 21-year-old daughter.
Sweden's equality minister said on Friday that Swedes should donate money to charities rather than giving it directly to street beggars, a move she claimed would help give EU migrants the choice to stay in their home countries.
After a sharp rise in EU migrants begging in Stockholm earlier this year, officials say numbers dipped in the spring, in the wake of several high profile mass evictions from the city.
UPDATED: Dozens of rough sleepers have been evicted from one of the Swedish capital's largest public squares, amid rising concerns about the growing numbers of beggars in Stockholm.
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Stockholm is opening a telephone hotline to help the city's growing homeless population, but one local charity worker says the move is just a government ploy.
A leading Swedish professor has said that it should be illegal for people to give money to beggars but his idea has been described as a "joke" by campaigners.
A Gothenburg hotel concept that is part social commentary, part installation has received worldwide attention by inviting guests to pay to be homeless for a night in the city.
Several tonnes of frozen lasagne pulled from store shelves in Sweden because it contained horsemeat will be donated to Stockholm's homeless population by Swedish food retailer Axfood.
As homelessness figures increase across Sweden, contributor <b>Patrick Reilly</b> heads to a soup kitchen in Malmö to find out more about the city's estimated 1,000 homeless people and what's being done to help them.
Hundreds of free lunches were served on a Stockholm square on Sunday as part of a local group's efforts to raise awareness about homelessness in the Swedish capital.
She’s a familiar face on Swedish television, but it was her venting blog post about a homeless man's mobile phone that caught the nation’s attention this week. <b>Laila Bagge Wahlgren</b> is The Local's Swede of the Week.
A homeless Stockholm man has been granted a subsidy from local authorities to purchase camping equipment rather than stay in the “substandard” temporary accommodation provided for homeless people.
The 27-year old German “tourist” who has been living rough in the Gothenburg Landvetter arrivals hall has left the airport after receiving an offer of a job and a place to live by a Stockholm firm.
