How to make a reservation 1st of June:
If you have any questions on how to make a reservation, please contact AYY’s real estate sector: kiinteistotoimi(at)ayy.fi. Please also let us know if you notice that any of the machines are out of order or if there are shortcomings in the cleanliness of the premises.
AYY strives to promote the principles of sustainable development in housing and we want to enable our residents to sort waste as ecologically as possible. Containers for plastic are located near the following buildings:
Instructions for recycling plastic have been distributed on the notice boards in all the properties mentioned above. Plastic waste is collected in Molok waste bins at recycling points.
Why recycle plastic waste?
Plastic packages are collected and turned into raw materials for new plastic products. This is how materials can be kept in the cycle, as a part of the circular economy. Collected plastic packages are turned, for instance, into plastic bags, flowerpots and buckets.
How to recycle plastic?
Most of plastic packaging can be recycled. Empty plastic packages for food stuff, such as yoghurt containers and packages for cold cuts, cheese and convenience food can be put into the collection container for plastic packages. Empty shampoo and soap bottles and plastic bags can also be put in the collection containers. Rinse or wipe clean empty packages, if necessary. It is clean enough if there is no odour nuisance.
Dispose of other plastic products, such as broken sledges, toys, watering cans and kitchen utensils in the mixed waste container.
More detailed instructions for recycling you’ll find here: https://www.hsy.fi/en/residents/sorting/instructions/Pages/Plastic.aspx.
Have you ever wondered how AYY apartments look like? We would like to see how our tenants make their AYY apartments look and feel like a home. Therefore we are challenging all our tenants to take part on our photo contest on Instagram! You can participate on the contest by sharing a photo of your AYY apartment on Instagram and using hashtag #ayyhousing. The contest is valid for November but we encourage our tenants to share the photos also in the future. Photos taken by the tenants are also shared on our “AYY Housing” Instagram account. All photos shared until 30th of November will take part in the draw and three winners will get a prize. The winners can choose whether they want to have free sauna turns for one year or one free reservation for one of AYY’s rental facilities.
Instructions and rules for the contest:
The complete renovation of the Jämeräntaival 3, 5, 7 property continues. The whole renovation project is estimated to be completed in the summer of 2019.
The renovation of Jämeräntaival 5 C will be finished by the end of April 2018. AYY will start making housing offers for these apartments during March 2018.
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Instructions for residents:
Living in the property will be impossible during the renovation work. Due to the renovation work, the rental contracts of residents and users will have to be terminated in stages. In the terminations, the termination period that is in accordance with the Tenancy Act shall be complied with, which is 6 months on the part of the lessor. AYY seeks to offer residents whose contracts are being terminated the possibility to move to a comparable flat in the Teekkari Village. The resident can decide whether they want to apply for another AYY flat or arrange their accommodation themselves in some other way after the termination.
For transfer applications, one additional queue point shall be given upon the decision of the Board of AYY, so that they are first in the queue. The additional point is valid until the applicant has received an offer for a shared flat or a flat that corresponds to the terminated one and as long as the need for accommodation is urgent due to the complete renovation. If you turn down the first accommodation offer, you will be treated as a normal accommodation seeker after that.
Residents can also apply for other flats of AYY. However, no additional points will be granted for other accommodation queues due to the renovation, but instead they will be scored in accordance with the normal rules. An exception to this is residents who live in a one-bedroom flat, but who are applying for a shared flat. The additional points for an urgent need for accommodation will be granted normally on the basis of termination done by the lessor for the queues where the additional points in question are in use.
If necessary, you can ask for further information from the housing office asuntotoimisto(at)ayy.fi
You can ask for more information about the complete renovation from the Construction Foreman of AYY, Hannes Helminen hannes.helminen(at)ayy.fi
The AYY Representative Council decided about changes to the Housing Regulations at its meeting on Thursday, the 22nd of February 2018. The changes relate particularly to the conditions about the period of validity of the housing applications, reacting to housing offers, and the secondary leasing of apartments.
One significant change from the applicant’s point of view is the reduction of the period of validity of the housing applications from six months to three months. The change applies to new housing applications made on and after the 1st of March 2018, meaning that applications made before this date are valid for six months as stated in the old Housing Regulations. The validity period of these applications will be changed to three months when the applicant renews their application. The Domo system will still remind you via email about renewing your application well in time before the application expires.
Another significant change from the applicant’s perspective is the effect that receiving a housing offer has on the housing applications. Currently, when the applicant rejected the housing offer or let it expire, all the applicant’s housing applications for all housing groups, except the one that the housing offer pertained to, were returned to the queue. On the other hand, if the applicant accepted the housing offer, they were given the possibility to return only two housing groups to the queue. With the change to the Housing Regulations, the applicant may return their application to three housing groups (chosen freely by the applicant), regardless of whether or not they have accepted the housing offer or let it expire. The change will enter into force on the 1st of March 2018, and it concerns all applicants. Therefore, all applicants should now make sure that their housing applications only include apartments that they are willing to accept in order to prevent a situation where the applicant receives an unwanted housing offer, after which they can only return three housing groups to the queue.
Another change related to housing applications is the redefinition of neighboring municipalities in the scoring instructions. Neighboring municipalities include Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen, and applicants living outside these municipalities can have an urgency point added to their application for shared apartments.
The Housing Regulations were also modified to better adapt to the students’ changing life situations. In the future, you can secondary lease your apartment also to people who are not members of AYY from October to March for the duration of your exchange studies, internship done abroad, JOO studies conducted outside the neighboring municipalities, or military or voluntary military service. However, you are compensated for your right of residence only in cases where the secondary tenant is a member of AYY. Conducting JOO studies outside the neighboring municipalities will also entitle you to compensation for your right of residence.
For friend apartments, the Housing Regulations were changed so that you can continue living in a friend apartment as long as at least one of the tenants is a member of AYY with a valid right of residence. You can also apply for a friend apartment with a friend who no longer has a valid right of residence but who is still a member of AYY.
The complete renovation of the Jämeräntaival 3, 5, 7 property is on schedule. Tenants have already moved to their apartments in Jämeräntaival 7 B and C, final finishes for the apartments in Jämeräntaival 7 A are made in the beginning of February. The whole renovation project is estimated to be completed in the summer of 2019.
Instructions for residents:
Living in the property will be impossible during the renovation work. Due to the renovation work, the rental contracts of residents and users will have to be terminated in stages. In the terminations, the termination period that is in accordance with the Tenancy Act shall be complied with, which is 6 months on the part of the lessor. AYY seeks to offer residents whose contracts are being terminated the possibility to move to a comparable flat in the Teekkari Village. The resident can decide whether they want to apply for another AYY flat or arrange their accommodation themselves in some other way after the termination.
For transfer applications, one additional queue point shall be given upon the decision of the Board of AYY, so that they are first in the queue. The additional point is valid until the applicant has received an offer for a shared flat or a flat that corresponds to the terminated one and as long as the need for accommodation is urgent due to the complete renovation. If you turn down the first accommodation offer, you will be treated as a normal accommodation seeker after that.
Residents can also apply for other flats of AYY. However, no additional points will be granted for other accommodation queues due to the renovation, but instead they will be scored in accordance with the normal rules. An exception to this is residents who live in a one-bedroom flat, but who are applying for a shared flat. The additional points for an urgent need for accommodation will be granted normally on the basis of termination done by the lessor for the queues where the additional points in question are in use.
If necessary, you can ask for further information from the housing office asuntotoimisto(at)ayy.fi
You can ask for more information about the complete renovation from the Construction Foreman of AYY, Hannes Helminen hannes.helminen(at)ayy.fi