Housing plays a central role in the process of integrating refugees. A home offers stability, a place of resources in the city, which may serve as a platform for participating in society. Although the provision of adequate housing is vital for a transformation into sustainable and resilient communities in cities characterised by hope, such housing conditions have become less accessible in Sweden. Refugees face a particularly difficult situation concerning housing as they are housed in less attractive residential areas, often in overcrowded and poorly maintained apartments. This situation has been further complicated by the restrictive turn in Swedish migration policy from 2016 and onwards. In sum, this policy turn consists of the introduction of temporary residence status, restrictions in family reunification, a refugee dispersal policy, and limitations in terms of choosing in which neighbourhood to reside. Our interdisciplinary project aims to understand the impact of the restrictive policy turn on the contemporary housing situation for refugees. We do so by focusing on how the policy change influences actors that use, plan, develop, and organise housing for refugees. The project gathers, develops, and collects an extensive database, where our unique empirical material links administrative data containing information on individuals exposed and not exposed to the policy turn, as well as in-depth interviews with refugees and stakeholders, to housing patterns and strategies. In this part of the project I am responsible researcher and work with the PhD student connected to the project. We are interviewing refugees that came ten years ago, on temporary or permanent residency permits on how they have found housing and how their lives are unfolding in Sweden. Our interest is on how their lives and plans are affected by the restrictive trend in migration policy and particular the effect of different permits.