Along with other Nordic countries, Sweden has obtained a worldwide acknowledgement during the second half of the 21st century as a country concretely working for better living conditions for people with disabilities through social entitlements and minimum requirements concerning accessibility and usability to ensure fundamental spatial qualities of the built environment. As a member of the European Union, Sweden engages in the work of introducing the EU directive on accessibility in public services, consequently, also participating in the development of the harmonized European standard EN17210.1The European Accessibility Act2 is a landmark EU law which requires everyday products and services to be accessible for persons with disabilities. It follows a commitment to accessibility made by the EU with Member States upon ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.3Consequently, the Swedish building act stipulates that buildings and physical planning shall be accessible and usable for people with disabilities to the largest extent possible. However, since 2011, the national building industry considers the appurtenant building regulations to be cost generating and blocking the production of new dwellings to overcome the increasingly larger housing shortage. In 2018, the Swedish government mandated the national Board for Building and Planning to draft new regulations to be introduced on July 1st, 2025. The new regulations have met a massive critic from the building industry, but also the municipalities that supervise the compliance with regulations. Theregulations are deemed as vague and void of practical information. Suddenly, the contemporaneous discussion about accessibility and usability of the built environment are changed from being fundamental components for creating an inclusive society into becoming negotiable objectives that arerelated to comprehensive building costs and sustainable building. How come that in Sweden, the most essential concepts of the 20th century’s for upholding a user-related perspective on architectural design have become a faint echo of what they used to be?