Good news for residents in shared apartments: Here’s how you can receive your own housing allowance while living in a friends’ apartment!

When residents in a friends’ apartment draft a mutual possession agreement for the apartment and submit it as an appendix to their housing allowance application, Kela can grant a separate housing allowance to each resident. This brings flexibility and clarity to shared housing – and in the best case, you can even save money!

It is easy to draft the possession agreement among the residents. Please remember to update the agreement if the residents change. The possession agreement includes the following information: the duration of the agreement, the rental agreement appendix, the individuals affected by the agreement, how the apartment is divided among the residents, how the rent is paid, and the division of responsibility for other expenses.