Jenna
Escape from the city’s noise
Original text: Anni Pajari | Pictures: Tiina Salminen When Mari Lähteenmäki, who works as a Communications Manager at Soihtu, moved to Jyväskylä to study, she wanted to find a safe haven in the nearby forest of her new hometown. Laajavuori...
Open for new makers
Text: Mari Lähteenmäki | Pictures: Tiina Salminen Hacklab Jyväskylä has a community workspace on the street level of the O building in the Kortepohja Student Village. Such workspaces are internationally described as makerspaces or...
Safety is created together
Text: Mari Lähteenmäki | Pictures: Tiina Salminen To start with building a safe environment, Soihtu complies with building regulations. This includes the choice of materials, width and lighting of corridors, number of exit routes and...
A home that looks like you
Text: Anni Pajari | Picture: Tiina Salminen Tiia Hallamaa, who is studying to become a classroom teacher at the University of Jyväskylä, read about the new student apartments under construction in Mäki-Matti through social media, but at the...
Tenants’ Info Letter of October
Soihtu Housing tenants receive a newsletter about the current housing topics in Kortepohja Student Village, Soihtu Vehkakuja and Soihtu Korttelikylä every month. The newsletter is sent to the e-mail address found in our system and provided by the...
Energy Saving Week 10.-16.10.2022
This week is the national Energy Saving Week. The price and availability of electricity is a concern for all of us this winter, and many of us want to take concrete steps to reduce our own consumption. The biggest energy-savings come from minimizing...
Home insurance offered to JYY members living in some of Soihtu housing locations will be discontinued
The home insurance offered to JYY members living in Kortepohja Student Village and Soihtu Vehkakuja will expire at the end of the this year, on 31st of December 2022. This gives tenants time to explore the options and choose the insurance they...
Solar panels will be installed to buildings H and J in the Student Village
Kortepohja Student Village will start using renewable energy production when solar panels will be installed on the roofs of buildings H and J, starting next week. The electricity produced from the solar panels is going to be about 2% of the Student...
All applications to Soihtu Korttelikylä have been processed
The application period to Soihtu Korttelikylä apartments opened in April and now all applications have been processed by Soihtu Housing. All apartments have been offered and applicants have received an offer via e-mail. Tenants of Soihtu...
Heart of a Living Village turns 50 years
Restaurant Rentukka - the name of which was chosen from almost 500 proposals in the title competition - opened to the public for the first time on June 3, 1972. Rentukka, renovated in 2018, will thus reach a respectable age of 50 in June. Today,...
A new Tenants’ Committee for Soihtu Vehkakuja has been formed
In May, Soihtu Vehkakuja's Tenants' Committee convened a tenants' meeting, which was held in Lillukka on Monday, May 16, 2022. A total of five tenants of Soihtu Vehkakuja, as well as Kimmo Moilanen, Soihtu's chief real estate officer, and Jenna...
Student Village’s and Vehkakuja’s cultivation boxes available 14.3. onwards
The tenants in Kortepohja Student Village have been able to reserve their own cultivation box free of charge during summer months. During last years the cultivation boxes have been quite popular, and last year the cultivation boxes were multiplied...