Sweden faces huge shortfall in refugee tents 

Sweden won't have enough tents to house record numbers of asylum seekers, with only 4,000 spaces available for an expected 50,000 refugees. 

The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency has warned that the first tents for 375 asylum seekers are delayed, and it is unlikely that more than 4 000 refugees will be housed in tents by the end of the year. The demands for 50 000 beds will not be met.
The Swedish Migration board (Migrationsverket) needs tents to house 50 000 refugees this year already. But that is impossible, Anneli Bergholm Söder from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) told TT: ”We want to warn Migrationsverket, they need to lower their expectations.”
Lack of suitable land and infrastructure are the main reasons the agency will fail to meet the demands for tent accommodation for refugees. ”It's not just about erecting a tent. You need electricity, water, sewage systems and so on. And if the tents are to be used for a longer period of time, the laws and regulations for regular buildings apply," said Bergholm Söder to TT. For instance the process of getting a building permit takes weeks, at the very least. 
MSB has found four areas that could lodge 4 000 asylum seekers. But only one of them, Revingehed outside Lund in southern Sweden, has a timed schedule for the tent erection – and it has been delayed almost a month, awaiting a building permit. The raising of the 75 tents could start on Wednesday, November 11th at the earliest, MSB told Dagens Nyheter today.
Mikael Ribbenvik, director of operations at the Swedish Migration Board, understands that finding space for 50 000 people can be difficult, and maintains that the demand for accommodation continues to outnumber the supply: “We are making extraordinary efforts right now, like putting mattresses in hallways everywhere possible,” he told TT.

The Local Sweden and TT