In the wake of the long summer of migration in 2015, the Swedish government presented a new law to speed up the transfers of refugees with granted permission to stay in the country from state-financed asylum centres to municipal housing. Due to a prolonged affordable housing crisis in many of the larger city-regions and scarce access to public housing, the municipal governments and administrations offered the new denizens temporary solutions. In Stockholm County, these solutions consisted of workers’ barracks, container dwellings, rooms in refurbished elderly homes and entire areas with modular houses, easily erected on temporary building permits. The so-called Settlement Act (2016:38) intended to speed up resettlement, create conditions in which refugees could settle down, make themselves at home and integrate faster. However, the temporary housing solutions did not feel like homes and neither did they create a more efficient transition from asylum to integration. Many tenants experienced them as a step backwards rather than forward, from the asylum centres to a life they had experienced in camps, where confinement, suspension and insecurity imbued the everyday. In this paper, I present an excerpt from my PhD thesis that illustrates a temporal element of what Huub van Baar has called evictability. Defined as the constant threat of being removed from a sheltering place, I contextualise this threat here in one of a chain of recurrent situations of uncertain habitation along the migration route that does not end with asylum status.