Speaking to The Local news website in 2009 when plans for the home were hatched, Renbagen chairman Christer Fallman said they were hoping to create a care home where "LGBT people can speak their own language and feel secure who they are". Resident Lars Mononen, a 64-year-old former Volvo worker, thought that the Renbagen probably won't be the last LGBT-friendly retirement home in Sweden. "I know already they are looking at doing something similar in Gothenburg," he told The Local.