The Guardian reports that Sweden is in the grip of a row over housing for refugees, with private accommodation providers accused of making fat profits while the country struggles to find beds for tens of thousands of asylum seekers before winter.

The country’s migration minister, Morgan Johansson, said private housing companies were taking advantage of the situation to “line their own pockets” as demand for beds and homes is hugely outstripping supply, according to the newspaper.

Accommodation providers — who were sold off to private companies under the last conservative-liberal government — are charging more than £6,000 a month to place a refugee child with a foster family, the Independent said.