Félagsbústaðir is Reykjavík’s municipal social housing company, responsible for providing and managing social rental housing across the city. It is an unprofitable limited company wholly owned by Reykjavík City, and its core role is to lease apartments to individuals and families who have been allocated social housing by the city’s welfare services.3
The organisation’s mission is closely tied to affordable housing and urban social mix. Its website states that social rental apartments are available in all neighbourhoods of Reykjavík, including housing for older people and people with disabilities.4 Félagsbústaðir manages more than 3,000 apartments across the city and says it buys new homes each year and builds housing designed to meet tenants’ specific needs, including accessibility needs related to disability.3
Operationally, Félagsbústaðir handles tenancy services, building maintenance, and housing management. Tenants can use its “Mínar síður” service portal to access lease information, rent invoices, and maintenance requests.45 Apartment allocation itself is decided by a central team within Reykjavík City’s Welfare Department, while the tenant signs the lease at Félagsbústaðir’s office in Þönglabakki 4, Reykjavík.35
The organisation’s work is local rather than national or international: it focuses on Reykjavík, where it is also linked to roughly 1,300 housing associations.6 The company traces its current form to 1997, when the city’s social housing operations were reorganised into Félagsbústaðir hf.3